Workshop: Tools and Techniques for Working with Apple Metal

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" summary

Coverage of Apple Metal tooling and techniques for profiling, correctness checks and GPU-side debugging, using Apple’s standard tools (on macOS/Xcode) and additional practical tricks the presenter used while developing graphic editors. Includes hands-on guidance and setup recommendations (Mac, Xcode, iPhone) and links to example code and the workshop presentation.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:55Metal documentation
3. 3:18Metal System Trace profiling
4. 17:37Thermal state management
5. 24:01Metal Frame Capture
6. 47:52Real-time shader debugging
7. 51:27Programmatic frame capture
8. 55:19Visualizing data without Frame Capture
9. 1:00:16Q&A

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