dcneiner/backbone — comment on commit e1762ed077450f5ad90eec8498c4d11c8a4df394
File: backbone.js line 999
By tomasztunik:

you should take advantage of changes in 0.9 and use the cached jQuery wrapped el - `this.$el.find(selector)` this way you create one more jQuery object by wrapping this.el another time as well as you basically call the jQuery constructor method again