I was thinking about whipping together a perfJS for the curry function and putting it in the post but ended up not... I might make one and post it back here.
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UPDATE: I made this jsperf: http://jsperf.com/curry-function
There might be better things to test, but the results were actually unexpected. Currying "manually" with nested functions is actually slower than using my "curry" function.
As I mentioned in my post, if you are touching the DOM at all, I really doubt you will see much of a performance hit from using this...