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Reverse-engineering Nvidia's CUDA-checkpoint for faster cold starts


Freezing a live CUDA process to host memory and thawing it again, what the driver does — and doesn't — do to make that work, and how understanding that lets us restore CUDA processes up to 4x faster.

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