No, they are not ignored. Comments were disabled because we are well aware of the problem space, so further discussion was not adding anything. The garbage col

No, they are not ignored. Comments were disabled because we are well aware of the problem space, so further discussion was not adding anything. The garbage collector has been rewritten for 1.5 and work continues on that front. Once the tree has stabilised (we're in the stabilisation period of our release cycle now) we will have a better idea how to resolve this issue.