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Merkle trees and build systems [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
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[โ€“] henfredemars 1 points 1 year ago

I fucking love Merkle trees.

[โ€“] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

How does this differ from Nix package manager? I haven't read Nix's implementation detail yet (just the concept) but maybe someone can fill me in or give me the tl;dr?