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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by sofaofthedamned on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:04PM (#11896407)
Metal is basically their proprietary version of Vulkan isn't it?
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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by orbitur on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:17PM (#11896544)
Metal came out before Vulkan.
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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by masklinn on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:00PM (#11897028)
It's conceptually similar, but is probably more properly related to Mantle (the AMD API later donated to Khronos, which they developed into Vulkan) and its initial release predates that of Vulkan by ~18 months (Metal was announced in September 2014 for iOS, the OSX port was released in June 2015, the initial release of Vulkan was in February 2016).
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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by izym on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:13PM (#11898167)
Somewhat, but with more (forced) automatic resource management.
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