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.:Ninjatrappeur:. (ninjatrappeur@social.alternativebit.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Dec-2021 18:04:08 CET .:Ninjatrappeur:.
"Introducing nix-casync, a more efficient way to store and substitute Nix store paths"
https://flokli.de/posts/2021-12-10-nix-casync-intro/
TL;DR: improving the Nix binary substitution by splitting the NAR archives in small chunks.
This distribution mechanism should decrease the amount of data we need to download each time a small input hash changed for a given derivation.