It is still interesting to see the timings for the view function, even though the entire rendering with the vdom is the real item of interest when optimising performance. After all, the programmer only has control over the view function, and the vdom part is provided by the runtime and in that sense beyond the control of the programmer.
It also strikes me that a pull request to add vdom timing information could be submitted (after the 0.19 release, as there is a context there in which it makes sense).