[Nix-dev] Set up a Sufficiently Powerful Build Farm

[Peter Simons]

Hi Eelco,

 >>> Just to be clear: you mean it compresses *to* 8%, or *by* 8%?
 >>
 >> By 8%.
 >
 > Hm, that's surprisingly low.

it turns out that nix-push compressed to ~8%, actually. I did not read
nix-push's out output correctly.

I repeated the experiment a moment ago, and a closure of all active
builds in 'haskellPackages' comes out weighing 2,212 MiByte (instead of
the uncompressed 31 GiByte) on x86_64-linux. I suppose this means the
build products from *all* Haskell package sets for *all* platforms would
take up approximately 100 GiByte in compressed form.

Best regards,
Peter