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I noticed this while updating Macports. It now features high bit
depth and such...

something photoshop had in 1992.

it still does not have adjustment layers, something photoshop had in
1996, making it still useless to any serious editing.

Photoshop was eight bits per channel until CS, IIRC...

CS was 32 vs 64 bits for addressing of memory, which was required for
having more total RAM for larger images.

Having 16 bit channels dates from November 1992 (version 2.5):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop_version_history

Know that!

apparently not.

The problem was lack of 16bit support for the plugins, which
is crucial for working with Photoshop the Photoshop way.

nonsense, and the gimp doesn't fully support all photoshop plug-ins
anyway.

also, i didn't see any mention that they made gimp faster. one of the
biggest problems with the gimp is that it was significantly slower than
photoshop, to the point of being unusable. for example, many actions
were not real time, as they are in photoshop. others took as much as
10x as long to complete.