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I believe React recycles DOM nodes based on type (they decide some DOM nodes are faster to recreate instead of reuse depending on the circumstances)

I may be wrong, but I believe hyperapp recycles both the physical DOM node and the attached vdom node together (IIRC, they mark reused vdom nodes as "recycled" instead of directly comparing objects so they don't have to construct as many new vdom objects).

Preact kinda cheats here because they diff against the DOM directly.