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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: El Capitan worth upgrading?
Date: 18 Oct 2015 18:53:07 GMT
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On 2015-10-18, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <5623e4d5$0$32040$c3e8da3$a9097924@news.astraweb.com> 
>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-18 08:22, Alan Browne wrote:
>
>>> I'd assume that on older h/w Metal is not called at all.
>
>> Which means the application needs to have two code branches
>
> No, it doesn't mean that at all.

Of course, the best way to implement such a mechanism would be to do it
in the Cocoa APIs used by applicationsi in a way that is transparent to
developers...

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