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> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:15:19 +0900
> From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Getting that number is system-dependent of course, but there seems no
> reason not to do it on systems where someone wants to write the code
> (it can even be done in lisp on linux, by reading /proc/meminfo).

I'd say we should add a primitive to get the amount of available
memory.