If I'm off-by-one I don't know what you're off by claiming "Emacs spent a few decades to get from 19 to 21" :) The 19.7 release came out on May 22, 1993, and 2

If I'm off-by-one I don't know what you're off by claiming "Emacs spent a few decades to get from 19 to 21" :) The 19.7 release came out on May 22, 1993, and 21.1 came out on October 20, 2001. That's 8 years, 4 months and 28 days[1], not decades. Similarly for 22.1 to 26.1, which is a period of 10 years, 11 months and 26 days[2], I took the liberty of rounding that up to 11 years. Perhaps you're under the mistaken impression that Emacs follows some sort of sane version numbering scheme, and that before 19.7 there was such a thing as a 19.6 release, or indeed any other 19.* version, or that before 22.1 there was a 22.0. Neither was the case. 19.7 and 22.1 were the first releases of their respective major versions. > So things since 22 are about about 50% faster > by my reckoning. That's nothing to the goal post being moved by 100% :) You were claiming that Emacs had adopted some modern fashion of more frequent releases. That's simply not the case. They had a really difficult 22.1 release, but otherwise it's been pretty consistent since 1993, way before this supposed fashion took off. 1. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=May+22,+1993+to+October+20,+2001 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=May+22,+1993+to+Octobe... 2. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=June+2,+2007%09to+May+28,+2018 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=June+2,+2007%09to+May+...