This function gets around the inefficiency of populating a [ubyte] vector
byte by byte. Since ubyte vectors are probably the most commonly used type
of generic byte buffer, this seems like a worthwhile thing to create a
fast path for.

Benchmarks show a 6x improvement in throughput on x64.

There is a new test verifying the functionality of the function.

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