shouldComponentUpdate only prunes the size of the vdom tree, updates are still O(n_virtual_dom). I've always thought this was an advantage compared to alternati

shouldComponentUpdate only prunes the size of the vdom tree, updates are still O(n_virtual_dom). I've always thought this was an advantage compared to alternative approaches I know about since pruning the size of the vdom tends to be fairly easy compared to, say, optimizing a KVO chain.