event delegation

I have a table 'tabelka' and first column is checkboxes. How to delegate event in the most effective way ? I came up with something like this, but it slows down when i have 3000 records on the page 
document.getElementById("tabelka").onclick = function(e)
	{
		
		
		e = e || window.event;
		var target = e.target || e.srcElement;
		
		if (target.tagName == 'INPUT') {
		if (target.checked)	
		{    target.setAttribute("checked", "checked");
		   target.checked = true;
		   
  				  			     
		} else {	
			 document.getElementById('mainchk').checked = false;
			 target.removeAttribute("checked"); 
		
			
			 			 
			} 
		}
		
	//	alert(target.id);
		
		
		if (typeof e.preventDefault === 'function') {
	 	 
			e.stopPropagation();
			} else {
 
			e.cancelBubble = true;
			}
		
	}

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My table has thead, tbody. I am only interested in the first column of tbody.
the fields in the header have onclick event attached to perform sorting . Maybe I should delegate those events also ?
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leakim971PluritechnicianCommented:
check this : http://jsfiddle.net/3RdcL/
    window.onload = setClickOnCheckboxFirstBodyColumn;

    function setClickOnCheckboxFirstBodyColumn() {
        var rows = document.getElementById("tabelka").getElementsByTagName("tbody")[0].getElementsByTagName("tr");
        for(var i=0;i<rows.length;i++) {
            rows[i].getElementsByTagName("input")[0].onclick = function() {
            //rows[i].getElementsByTagName("td")[0].getElementsByTagName("input")[0].onclick = function() {
                if(!this.checked) document.getElementById('mainchk').checked = false;    
            }
        }
    }¿

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If needed call the function setClickOnCheckboxFirstBodyColumn each time you update dynamically your table. (Ajax callback?)
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