Remove an unused regex and optimize character escape regex usage.

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 4311e31..f116ef4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -19,12 +19,8 @@ var jQuery = function( selector, context ) {
        // (both of which we optimize for)
        quickExpr = /^(?:[^<]*(<[\w\W]+>)[^>]*$|#([\w\-]+)$)/,
 
-       // Is it a simple selector
-       isSimple = /^.[^:#\[\.,]*$/,
-
        // Check if a string has a non-whitespace character in it
        rnotwhite = /\S/,
-       rwhite = /\s/,
 
        // Used for trimming whitespace
        trimLeft = /^\s+/,
@@ -1039,9 +1035,8 @@ if ( indexOf ) {
        };
 }
 
-// Verify that \s matches non-breaking spaces
-// (IE fails on this test)
-if ( !rwhite.test( "\xA0" ) ) {
+// IE doesn't match non-breaking spaces with \s
+if ( rnotwhite.test( "\xA0" ) ) {
        trimLeft = /^[\s\xA0]+/;
        trimRight = /[\s\xA0]+$/;
 }