[jamespwilliams]

Kind of makes you wonder why React.memo isn't just the default behaviour.

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/14463#issuecomment-... suggests it was meant to be the default behaviour, but was scrapped because it would "break backwards compatibility". No source is given for that claim though.

[baxuz]

https://overreacted.io/before-you-memo/

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...