--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/mercurial/worker.py	Sat Feb 09 15:22:12 2013 -0800
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+# worker.py - master-slave parallelism support
+#
+# Copyright 2013 Facebook, Inc.
+#
+# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
+# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
+
+import os
+
+def countcpus():
+    '''try to count the number of CPUs on the system'''
+
+    # posix
+    try:
+        n = int(os.sysconf('SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN'))
+        if n > 0:
+            return n
+    except (AttributeError, ValueError):
+        pass
+
+    # windows
+    try:
+        n = int(os.environ['NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS'])
+        if n > 0:
+            return n
+    except (KeyError, ValueError):
+        pass
+
+    return 1