Quote: cache files and build results by fingerprint; distinguish large (1+ MB) and small files

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The Vesta function cache employs special 128-bit checksums … [refs] … Each large immutable file and each immutable directory … the repository. … Each large new derived (that is, each large … generated when the file is created. … Each small file has a fingerprint computed from … By default, the threshold [between large and small files] is one megabyte …   Google-1   Google-2

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