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David Fetter wrote:
>>
>> balanced
>> gradual
>> extended (I see you mention time-extended but wouldn't time be implicit
>> based on the actual docs and thus we only need extended?)
>>     
>
> How about "smoothed?"
>
>
>   

perhaps we should call it Jacob checkpointing, then.

cheers

andrew