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Prefix Length (N) Expected Attempts Time @ 300,904 drv/s 1 32 < 1s 2 1,024 < 1s 3 32,768 < 1s 4 1,048,576 3.48 s 5 33,554,432 111.5 s (≈1.86 minutes) 6 1,073,741,824 3,567 s (≈59.45 minutes) 7 34,359,738,368 114,209 s (≈31.72 hours)
Aw man, so you’re telling me that if I want all my system generations to begin with elvish, it’s going to take hours for every nixos-rebuild? 
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But elvsh is very doable lol
I think e is already not used in Nix hashes at all (just like o and u and t).
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And lvsh is trivial.
But that looks “lavish” to me 
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