Comment by pjmlp

Except they do, when one bothers to read computer science reference literature, instead of blog posts from folks that learned programming on their own way.

Being pedantic is required mechanism to fix urban myths, that is how we end up with he says, she says, adultered knowledge.

All those "garbage collection" variations are exactly the proof what happens when people on the street discuss matters without having a clue about what they are talking about, it is like practice medecine with village recipes "I hear XYZ cures ABC".

It is not vague, IEEE and ACM have plenty of literature on the matter.