Interesting/historical binaries are kept here, such as: - Optimised cabal builds, copied here from cabal's bin directory. - Old versions, with the -X.Y suffix. Used for performance benchmarking. - Builds for other platforms, with a -PLATFORM-ARCH suffix, maybe compressed for download. - Non-optimised developer builds compiled with make (*dev). Used during development for quicker, multi-package, and on-change compilation. - cabal and/or make builds with profiling enabled (*-prof). Used for investigating time and space usage.