title: Is document.links faster in finding a link using jQuery?
body: <p>Is this faster:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document.links).filter('a.someClass')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>than just plain old this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('a.someClass')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>?</p>
  
  <p>I don't see anywhere in jQuery's code the utilization of <code>document.links</code><br/>
  which gives you the collection of links on the document right away,<br />
  than, it would seem, it would be faster to just filter in the collection<br />
  instead of all the DOM nodes, which is alot more nodes to go over.</p>