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I don't think tree shaking would help much. Speaking as an author of one of those mini-virtual-dom libraries, from my experience/research, the choices of features to support are usually tightly integrated for performance reasons.

For tree shaking to work, it must be possible to statically infer that some code is not part of the dependency graph of your application. Something like SVG support requires extensions to the virtual dom node structure that the renderer's visitor looks at, so it's quite difficult to make it into a hook and not lose performance to various overheads. It's also worth mentioning that over-modularizing can get boilerplatey (e.g. https://github.com/paldepind/snabbdom#inline-example)




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