Am I the only one who was trouble parsing this sentence correctly?

There is nothing novel about this really. It's neat that it works with hexadecimal printing to directly read off the sub-limb index but honestly who cares about that.

Outside of that observation there's no advantage to 16-bit limbs and this is just a bog-standard bitset where the first k bits indicate the position within the 2^k bit limb, and the remaining bits give you the limb index.

Sadly, C++ standard library API designers made it impossible to directly access the array of integers stored inside std::vector<bool>. This made serialization/de-serialization of these vectors very inefficient, sometimes prohibitively so.

It's not about the bitset itself. It's about how to organize and think about your flags.

The small visualization grid is fantastic for debugging, and the `word:bit` structure lends itself directly to organize your data in categories and display them as such.

But in retrospect, it wasn't super great if the disc or installation somehow got corrupted. You would lose your entire configuration and parking operators do not have the best IT.

This way of storing configuration was designed back in the 90s at this Company and it survived over 20 years. This was prior to this Zelda game and I never played it.