I noticed jLinq was rolled into jqGrid around 3.6.x. I did notice some optimizations done to it, but, still, this performance comparison might be of interest:
Thanks for this Daniel. For now I do not notice any problems with 2000 records.
Instead it is very interesting and I will do some test on this, but I'mnot sure that the things will be cahnged – i.e to change the plugin, since we have make a lot of impriovements in jLinq