Yes, that's true in this case, but it's not unusual to have something which uniquely identifies a debounced/memoized/cached function though, so that subsequent

Yes, that's true in this case, but it's not unusual to have something which uniquely identifies a debounced/memoized/cached function though, so that subsequent calls look it up against a registry and avoid repeated computation. In the context of requests, that's usually the URL itself (or some combination of the URL and some parameters). This sort of registry is basically exactly what a component instance serves as is in the context of hooks.