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Re:Tiny Treeshaker: JavaScript tree shaking in 200 lines of ... by IshKebab on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:17AM (#27672830)
> Think of dead code elimination as removing code that doesn't change the output, while tree shaking instead includes code that could run.

Those are both dead code elimination. Webpack even says:

> Tree shaking is a term commonly used in the JavaScript context for dead-code elimination.

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