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>What's the benefit of Metal in this use case? Continued usage on macOS if you care about that kind of a thing since Apple has deprecated OpenCL support.
by Hamuko 6y ago
>What's the benefit of Metal in this use case?
Continued usage on macOS if you care about that kind of a thing since Apple has deprecated OpenCL support.
- jeroenhd 6y agoTIL. That's awful, but then again I'd expect nothing less from Apple. It's a miracle they even supported open standards in the first place. As long as Apple keeps OpenCL around, even if it's deprecated, these tools should still work. I'd expect that only the announcement of complete removal of OpenCL support would be enough to actually make hashcat put in the extra effort of writing a special Apple backend like that. Maybe they're generous or bored and do it before that, but I wouldn't expect them to in the near future.
- continuational 6y agoIt's not such a miracle - all companies like standards until they have sufficiently many apps on their platform - then they switch to proprietary to prevent app portability to competing platforms.