Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 1

When you're writing a tree deallocator, I'd expect it to have privileged access to the interior of the tree. There's no reason not to use a specialized high-speed node deletor in that case: rebalancing the tree between every deletion is silly, because it will never be accessed again. (Even a multithread-safe tree should probably block and warn on accesses once tree deallocation begins: any such accesses are racy and could easily access rubbish if they happened just an instant later.)