Is there any way to speed up this solution for a case-insensitive jQuery :contains selector?

Question

I found this solution for a case-insensitive jQuery :contains selector on StackOverflow. It works great, however it comes at the cost of performance. Does anyone el

Answer 1

here's a follow up question: What's the deal with jQuery.text()? Why's it so slow?

I suspect that it's slow due to the $(a) (converting the DOM element to a jQuery object) and not the .text().