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 Lime aims for features which do not involve significant new runtime cost or complexity,
 and can be implemented in mobile devices and other highly constrained environments.
 
+The name "Lime" was inspired by abbreviating *Li*near *Me*mory, as this series currently
+lacks wasm-gc and is therefore focused on linear-memory languages or language implementations.
+
 ## The configurations
 
 The following Lime configurations have been defined: