The other nice thing about that is CPU.
Going in I knew the amount of elements would be a CPU hog but since this thread is 'Clone' I avoided thinking of doing things different with the number of objects but @jims approuch is always best if you can go down that road.
89.7% one is the clones
3.3 is the symbols images.
There are many reasons you may want to clone. The main reason I normally do it is when I need a selection to be generated dynamically. For example
Cloning is part of the Native JS API. But Hype is a self maintained would and does not support cloning and see the new elements so it is a Hack where using cloning with Hype is concerned.