Deep resolutions for dynamic derivations #8947
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All resolutions can be expressed with just resolutions on resolved CA derivations --- "small step" resolutions. But we also have resolutions on unresolved CA derivations --- "big step" resolutions --- to avoid lots of network round trips. For the same reasons, we might consider having "big step" resolutions for dynamic derivations, allowing one to resolve an inductive derived path like
asdfadsfasf-hello.drv.drv.drv^out^out^out
directlyDescribe alternatives you've considered
I am not sure I even like big step resolutions. Perhaps the existing ones should also be rethought, and the network pipeline problem can be dealt with in a different way. Then we would also do that same different thing for this.
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#6316
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