Definition of "checkpointing" []

• Present participle of checkpoint. (verb)

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• "The process is known as checkpointing: a CT is frozen and its whole state is saved to the file on disk."
• "They built a system that implemented “checkpointing,” a way for the index to hold its place if a calamity befell a server or hard disk."
• "Initial results are good: the automatically generated code had similar performance profiles to hand generated checkpointing code."