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I looked at this the other day. While I think the effort is always good, a library like Sizzle already handles stuff like this and a lot, lot more. Its field tested and battle hardened. Its optimized for the 99% use cases, etc.

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The idea behind this project, was to make it as small as possible and as fast as possible. Yes it does indeed lose many features that jQuery (or Sizzle) provide, but if you need something simple and fast, then I don't see why you should include another 50KB file.

I really like jQuery, but sometimes its feature-rich architecture is just slow.

how's the comparison to e.g. zepto.js core ?

I actually did not test it against zepto.js. I will add some more tests in the future.

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