jQuery animate() and browser performance

Question

I\'ve got some elements that I\'m moving across the page very slowly. Essentially, I\'m decreasing the left margin of two images over a span of 40 seconds or so.

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Answer 1

I know this is an oldish question and Tim provided a great answer, but I just thought I should post an update for anyone looking for a solution to this problem, since there's now a simpler way...

As of jQuery 1.4.3 you can set the interval jQuery's animate uses directly via the jQuery.fx.interval property. So you can simply do something like:

jQuery.fx.interval = 50;