added component integrity checks and some initial checksums
prefer canonical fold_rev;
back to naive insertion sort before 1997 to accommodate peculiar less_arg relation -- NB: make_ord arg_less was not a quasi-order and thus inappropriate for generic sort (cf. de74b549f976, ecfeff48bf0c);
removed some old/unused stuff;
tuned whitespace;
actually remove former atbroy102/cygwin stuff (cf. 6301046146b6, 08cb859c53cd);