Have you ever watched a “Based on a True Story” movie and wondered how much of it was true? Have you ever paused a movie to see how much of it actually happened? Have you heard that American Sniper was mostly fabricated and wanted to know which parts?

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This article is a work in progress and will be revised several times. This is a loose series of words and code blocks to put my thoughts into words to help myself better understand the work I am doing. Please note that Metal is a c++-like language and is missing many core features of C++11 such as new & delete operators, memalloc, memset, free, inheritance/derived classes, the foundational stdlib (though it comes with it’s own stripped down metal_stdlib with apple branded alternatives such as vec<T, n> instead of std::vector<T>), etc.