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It will only cover the single chip Niagara 2 boxes.

			-Kip

> Maybe there should be an option "MANYCPUS" that wraps current calls that
> manipulate this int value into calls that operate on a bitmap, so
> there's no speed loss in machines with low number of CPUs. Also, why not
> use a 64-bit int on 64-bit platforms for the mask? This will cover at
> least Niagara 2 by default.
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