I am loading HTML page through ajax and then doing a bunch of searches using selectors:

$.ajax({
    ...
    dataType: "html",
    success: function(html) {
        $("#id1", html);
        $(".class", html);
        //...
    }
}

Should I extract $(html) into a variable and use it as a content, or it doesn't matter (from performance point)?

success: function(html) {
        $html = $(html);
        $("#id1", $html);
        $(".class", $html);
        //...
    }