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Save num_steps At ts

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Hi!

I am solving SDEs with adaptive stepsize (PID very efficient in my case), and for benchmarking purposes, I need to know the number of steps the solver take to reach specific conditions. However, I clearly can't afford to do a SaveAt(steps=True). And I can't find another way to accessing it properly.

Ideally, one could have a SaveState that includes a ns for number of steps (and why not a dts for stepsize) in addition to ts and ys. Thereby, one could save them at any specified ts, with a modified save_ts. What do you think?

And thanks for the great package!

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Start with SaveState and save_ts in diffrax/_integrate.py, at the locations linked in the issue, and compare their behavior with SaveAt(steps=True). Define how a step count, and optionally step sizes, should be aligned with requested ts values without retaining every solver step; done means the proposed API is specified and covered by relevant tests.

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python
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backend
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Feature
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