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Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths
Speed up Nix deployments, especially on resource-constrained devices, by avoiding the evaluation tax
You point Nix at a flake reference for a derivation and say “build!” It then spins up a sandbox and reproducibly creates real bytes on disk. But on resource-constrained devices, such as smart sensors, Raspberry Pis, or industrial controllers, even pulling from a cache can use a ton of memory if you need to evaluate the store path—something you’d surely like to avoid at all costs. You can apply a NixOS, Home Manager, or nix-darwin configuration to the current host solely with a flake reference—again pulled directly from FlakeHub Cache without incurring an evaluation tax.
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