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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:40:13 +0100
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> it looks to me like it wouldn't work across different architectures.
> is that a correct reading? maybe this is a usual restriction in
> this kind of library?

Quite right - homogeneous architectures only.  Attempting to cope
with heterogeneity accounts for some of the complexity (and inefficiency)
of some other libraries.  I would guess that any decently scalable
parallel machine will be single-architecture (but I haven't surveyed
the field lately).