[refactor] make bitmasks closer to a real type
While the current bitmask management is heavily inspired by libnuma, it is not as easy to use has the libnuma API. This patch is an attempt to refactor to code towards something cleaner.
While the current bitmask management is heavily inspired by libnuma, it is not as easy to use has the libnuma API. This patch is an attempt to refactor to code towards something cleaner.