Adding config option for checkpointing (#50) #47

Job	Run time
macos (macos-12, x86_64)	14m 5s
musllinux (ubuntu-latest, x86_64)	11m 11s
linux (ubuntu-latest, x86_64)	10m 15s
macos (macos-14, aarch64)	9m 50s
musllinux (ubuntu-latest, aarch64)	11m 39s
linux (ubuntu-latest, aarch64)	10m 46s
linux (ubuntu-latest, s390x)	13m 39s
sdist	23s
linux (ubuntu-latest, ppc64le)	11m 6s
	1h 32m 54s

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