def checkpoint(func, inputs, params, flag):
    """
    Evaluate a function without caching intermediate activations, allowing for
    reduced memory at the expense of extra compute in the backward pass.
    :param func: the function to evaluate.
    :param inputs: the argument sequence to pass to `func`.
    :param params: a sequence of parameters `func` depends on but does not
                   explicitly take as arguments.
    :param flag: if False, disable gradient checkpointing.
    """
    if flag:
        args = tuple(inputs) + tuple(params)
        return CheckpointFunction.apply(func, len(inputs), *args)
    else:
        return func(*inputs)

    Evaluate a function without caching intermediate activations, allowing for
    reduced memory at the expense of extra compute in the backward pass.
    :param func: the function to evaluate.
    :param inputs: the argument sequence to pass to `func`.
    :param params: a sequence of parameters `func` depends on but does not
                   explicitly take as arguments.
    :param flag: if False, disable gradient checkpointing.
    
mv-diffusion/MVDream/mvdream/ldm/modules/diffusionmodules/util.py