Merkle trees and build systems

Posted May 28, 2020 21:55 UTC (Thu) by civodul (guest, #58311)
In reply to: Merkle trees and build systems by atai
Parent article: Merkle trees and build systems

Yes, it does. This is called the "extensional model" in the original Nix work (see https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf). The model is that build processes are view as pure functions, which can thus be "memoized"; IOW, build results can be cached in the store.