@claude according to this page -> https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Memory#Lua_Memory the memory available to lua is limited to 2 MiB
granted, that's a fandom wiki page that doesn't cite any sources, so i don't know if it's true. but even if that's not the case, it would be handy to know how i might impose such a limitation so it's easier to guarantee that games made for my thing can be run on any system that supports my thing