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tldr; this PR memoises the generated CSS per selector

in CSS mode, every <Icon> regenerates its SVG data URL and CSS rule on every request, even though the output only depends on the icon data and the selector.

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we cap the cache at 1000 selectors and clear it when full, but perhaps we could expose this as an option if you think it beneficial...

in terms of impact, I tested this on a Nuxt UI 4 marketing page with 55 icons per request, and this shaves off about 0.23ms, which is a little less than 5% speedup across the entire request time.

median GET / latency before after delta
Nuxt UI 4 landing page, production build 7394µs 7044µs -4.7%
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import { getIconCSS } from '@iconify/utils/lib/css/icon'
import { icons as ph } from '@iconify-json/ph'
import { getIconData } from '@iconify/utils'
import { getCachedIconCSS } from './src/runtime/components/css-cache.ts'

const names = Object.keys(ph.icons).slice(0, 55)
const icons = names.map(name => [getIconData(ph, name), `:where(.i-ph\\:${name})`])
const REQUESTS = 2000

function bench(fn) {
  const start = performance.now()
  for (let r = 0; r < REQUESTS; r++) {
    for (const [icon, selector] of icons) fn(icon, selector)
  }
  return (performance.now() - start) * 1000 / REQUESTS
}

const before = (icon, iconSelector) => getIconCSS(icon, { iconSelector, format: 'compressed' })
const after = (icon, iconSelector) => getCachedIconCSS(icon, iconSelector)

for (const [icon, selector] of icons) {
  if (before(icon, selector) !== after(icon, selector)) throw new Error(`mismatch for ${selector}`)
}
bench(before)
bench(after)

for (let round = 1; round <= 5; round++) {
  console.log(`round ${round}: before ${bench(before).toFixed(1)} µs/req, after ${bench(after).toFixed(1)} µs/req`)
}
55 icons x 2000 requests, 5 rounds before after delta
µs per request 390-418 4.5-4.8 -99%

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The runtime now generates icon CSS through a selector-keyed cache. It reuses a cached result when the icon’s enumerable keys and values match. It bypasses the cache when a customization callback is supplied and clears the cache when it reaches 1,000 entries. Tests cover cache reuse, changes to icon data, customized CSS, and cache clearing.

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The cache preserves CSS correctness for declared icon inputs across the reviewed runtime paths, with no merge-blocking risk established.

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