While reading the rather hilarious blog of his, I stumbled upon this possible explanation why that sentence is gone: I'm going to ditch LL/SC implementations,

While reading the rather hilarious blog of his, I stumbled upon this possible explanation why that sentence is gone: I'm going to ditch LL/SC implementations, in part because they're just too unreliable and in part because they prevent the library from being able to simply offer the caller a choice - "garbage collection or not?" which in turn removes a TON of stuff which otherwise has to be explained to the end user. http://www.liblfds.org/blog/index.php?entry=Quick-update http://www.liblfds.org/blog/index.php?entry=Quick-update