This is to allow you to directly access the cache, should you need to. For normal fits, the cache file will always be a list readable by readRDS and have element $fit for the actual fit. Other elements will contain the text output, messages and warnings emitted by the fit.

cached_fit_filename(cache_dir, backend, generated, suffix = "")

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This is also used internally to cache some extra data (notably bridgesampling results) using a non-empty suffix string.