New whisper-fill utility.

Backport from https://github.com/jssjr/carbonate/

Fixes #22.
Backport pr #33 into 0.9.x

Fixes #35.
Merge pull request #87 from deniszh/0.9.x

New whisper-fill utility.
Merge pull request #89 from deniszh/0.9.x_update_many

Backport pr #81 into 0.9.x
store len(alignedPoints) in a var for retrieval, refs #89
Merge pull request #90 from obfuscurity/minor_alignedPoints_optimization

Store len(alignedPoints) in a var for retrieval
Merge branch '0.9.x' into datacratic

Up to date with upstream as of 2014-09-16