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• kibwen 11y ago
  Indeed, I have disagreed with pcwalton in the past over the inclusion of non-cycle-collected reference counting as garbage collection, because I feel that it unnecessarily muddies the waters in a world where "garbage collection" is so often understood to be merely a shorthand for "tracing garbage collection". And intuitively to me anyway, the phrase "garbage collector" implies something that is doing the collecting! In any case, the phrase has been too thoroughly co-opted. I prefer that we think up a new term to account for non-collected reference counting, such as "dynamic lifetime management". Propose your own term, I'm not picky. :)