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Re: Deep vs Shallow trace: Removing the tradeoff?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Deep vs Shallow trace: Removing the tradeoff? |
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Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:46:49 +0200 |
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Hi,
ilmu <ilmu@rishi.is> skribis:
> Early cutoff is a very desirable property that nix does not have (and I
> assume therefore that neither does guix).
The “intensional model” that Julien mentioned, or what the Nix folks now
refer to as “content-addressed derivations”, have this early cutoff
property. It’s one of the main motivations for this whole endeavors.
This document shows how Nix folks are working on retrofitting
“content-addressed derivations” into Nix:
https://github.com/tweag/rfcs/blob/cas-rfc/rfcs/0062-content-addressed-paths.md
Thanks,
Ludo’.