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+
+## Input
+
+```javascript
+import { Stringify } from "shared-runtime";
+
+function Component({ config }) {
+  /**
+   * The original memoization is optimal in the sense that it has
+   * one output (the object) and one dependency (`config`). Both
+   * the `a` and `b` functions will have to be recreated whenever
+   * `config` changes, cascading to update the object.
+   *
+   * However, we currently only consider consecutive scopes for
+   * merging, so we first see the `a` scope, then the `b` scope,
+   * and see that the output of the `a` scope is used later -
+   * so we don't merge these scopes, and so on.
+   *
+   * The more optimal thing would be to build a dependency graph
+   * of scopes so that we can see the data flow is along the lines
+   * of:
+   *
+   *             config
+   *            /      \
+   *          [a]      [b]
+   *           \       /
+   *           [object]
+   *
+   * All the scopes (shown in []) are transitively dependent on
+   * `config`, so they can be merged.
+   */
+  const object = useMemo(() => {
+    const a = (event) => {
+      config?.onA?.(event);
+    };
+
+    const b = (event) => {
+      config?.onB?.(event);
+    };
+
+    return {
+      b,
+      a,
+    };
+  }, [config]);
+
+  return <Stringify value={object} />;
+}
+
+```
+
+## Code
+
+```javascript
+import { c as _c } from "react/compiler-runtime";
+import { Stringify } from "shared-runtime";
+
+function Component(t0) {
+  const $ = _c(9);
+  const { config } = t0;
+  let t1;
+  let t2;
+  if ($[0] !== config) {
+    t2 = (event) => {
+      config?.onA?.(event);
+    };
+    $[0] = config;
+    $[1] = t2;
+  } else {
+    t2 = $[1];
+  }
+  const a = t2;
+  let t3;
+  if ($[2] !== config) {
+    t3 = (event_0) => {
+      config?.onB?.(event_0);
+    };
+    $[2] = config;
+    $[3] = t3;
+  } else {
+    t3 = $[3];
+  }
+  const b = t3;
+  let t4;
+  if ($[4] !== b || $[5] !== a) {
+    t4 = { b, a };
+    $[4] = b;
+    $[5] = a;
+    $[6] = t4;
+  } else {
+    t4 = $[6];
+  }
+  t1 = t4;
+  const object = t1;
+  let t5;
+  if ($[7] !== object) {
+    t5 = <Stringify value={object} />;
+    $[7] = object;
+    $[8] = t5;
+  } else {
+    t5 = $[8];
+  }
+  return t5;
+}
+
+```
+      
+### Eval output
+(kind: exception) Fixture not implemented
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+import { Stringify } from "shared-runtime";
+
+function Component({ config }) {
+  /**
+   * The original memoization is optimal in the sense that it has
+   * one output (the object) and one dependency (`config`). Both
+   * the `a` and `b` functions will have to be recreated whenever
+   * `config` changes, cascading to update the object.
+   *
+   * However, we currently only consider consecutive scopes for
+   * merging, so we first see the `a` scope, then the `b` scope,
+   * and see that the output of the `a` scope is used later -
+   * so we don't merge these scopes, and so on.
+   *
+   * The more optimal thing would be to build a dependency graph
+   * of scopes so that we can see the data flow is along the lines
+   * of:
+   *
+   *             config
+   *            /      \
+   *          [a]      [b]
+   *           \       /
+   *           [object]
+   *
+   * All the scopes (shown in []) are transitively dependent on
+   * `config`, so they can be merged.
+   */
+  const object = useMemo(() => {
+    const a = (event) => {
+      config?.onA?.(event);
+    };
+
+    const b = (event) => {
+      config?.onB?.(event);
+    };
+
+    return {
+      b,
+      a,
+    };
+  }, [config]);
+
+  return <Stringify value={object} />;
+}