Dynamic creation of large html table in javascript performance

Question

I have an application which is used for data analysis and I\'m having a few performance issues with the creation of the table. The data is extracted from documents and it is

Answer 1

Per others suggestions (I'm not reputable enough to comment yet, sorry!), you might try the TableSorter plugin to handle only displaying a usable amount of data at a time.

I don't know how it fares at very high numbers of rows, but their example data is 1000 rows or so.

This wouldn't help with JS performance but would keep the burden off the browser renderer.