Checkpointing saves out a lot more than the population: it's the entire state of the program.

The right way to do this is to write out the population, or some subset, and read it in as a seed.  The manual goes in to some detail on how to do this.

Sean

On Aug 11, 2013, at 12:30 AM, Warren Henning wrote:

> This should be easy to do and ECJ supports this very well. See Section 2.3 of the manual, "Checkpointing", and Section 3.3, "Initializers and Finishers". I wonder if it's as simple as checkpointing out the population, then using that checkpoint file as the value of pop.file in your configuration?
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> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Vlad Palnik <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I'm looking for code that would allow me to save a population at the end of a run and use it as a seed during the next phase.  I know this issue has come up before and was wondering if anyone has had any success?? Please let me know if you've had any success.
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