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> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:09:22 +0200
> 
> A reoccurring question people have is "where is Emacs using memory now,
> then?"
> 
> This can't be reported accurately, really, but...  does Emacs already
> have a command that tries to visualise this for users?  There's
> 
> (garbage-collect)

This doesn't include memory we allocate for stuff that isn't Lisp
objects.