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Automatically determine best epilogue format #176

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We are finding that the savings of diff-based epilogues is based on application behavior.
Generally, diff epilogues are better for more realistic workloads, where GPU kernels change a small portion of overall device memory.
Full epilogues are better for kernel benchmarks (e.g., HeCBench).
The differences are quite stark: up to 2x storage space increase for pathological diff cases, and up to 2x storage space increase for pathological full-epilogue case.

We should have an auto mode to detect which mode yields space savings.
It seems easy to detect when a diff you're building will be larger than the prologue itself and fallback to full epilogue in these cases.

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