std.bitmanip improvements

[Marco Nembrini]

On Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 10:16:51 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
>
> IRC Era Scarecrow did an amazing job on it that covered a lot 
> of enhancements including small string optimization, appending, 
> slicing etc.
>
> I recall reviewing his code and it was a Phobos pull once but 
> then it pulled out (for further enhancement? dunno). So 
> definitely suggest you two to get in touch.
>

I assume you are referring to the code in this thread: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gtfxxmlqwgyadmpygftv@forum.dlang.org 
?