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Re:iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 by tbrock on Saturday July 28, 2018 @10:30PM (#17636183)
Except that is not how it works. Metal absolutely works with the integrated GPU.
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Re:iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 by ripdog on Sunday July 29, 2018 @10:23AM (#17638260)
He wasn't saying metal can render via the cpu, he was saying that macos apps in general can choose whether to use cpu or gpu rendering.
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