From 18f28ea7d46d5adce24565f277529c798ebf1763 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Resig <jeresig@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:03:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Made a slight adjustment to $("expr") to make it faster.

---
 src/jquery/jquery.js |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jquery/jquery.js b/src/jquery/jquery.js
index 151f68f..86d2bd3 100644
--- a/src/jquery/jquery.js
+++ b/src/jquery/jquery.js
@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ var jQuery = function(a,c) {
 	
 	// Handle HTML strings
 	if ( typeof a  == "string" ) {
-		// HANDLE: $(html) -> $(array)
 		var m = /^[^<]*(<.+>)[^>]*$/.exec(a);
-		if ( m )
-			a = jQuery.clean( [ m[1] ] );
+
+		a = m ?
+			// HANDLE: $(html) -> $(array)
+			jQuery.clean( [ m[1] ] ) :
 		
-		// HANDLE: $(expr)
-		else
-			return new jQuery( c ).find( a );
+			// HANDLE: $(expr)
+			jQuery.find( a, c );
 	}
 	
 	return this.setArray(
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1.7.10.4