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> True, there's always another way. But you can say same about almost any subject.

This thread was started because the article focuses on lock free programming with garbage collection when garbage collection is not any sort of fundamental factor in lock free programming.

> In my experience about lock-free (and wait-free) programming, safe and high performance deallocation of the objects is often a problem.

Concurrency bottlenecks are fundamentally about synchronization. The solution is frequently to synchronize less and that means doing more in between synchronizing. This implies allocating and deallocating more at one time.



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