In common use, by those that never learn the theory behind their tools.

That is a tracing GC by the way.

There are also tracing GC implementations with deterministic resource management APIs, .NET and D have them for example.

People use words in a way that is useful. Really this just shows that the pedantic academic definition of GC is not the most useful one.

	▲	pjmlp a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Useful to them usually, or it goes to show how little our profession cares about learning the proper terms, or its historical background for that matter.