Godot supports many different compilers and for production releases we
have to support 3 currently: GCC8, Clang6, and MSVC2017. These compilers
all do slightly different things with -ffast-math and it is causing
issues now. See #24841, #24540, #10758, #10070. And probably other
complaints about physics differences between release and release_debug
builds.
I've done some performance comparisons on Linux x86_64. All tests are
ran 20 times.
Bunnymark: (higher is better)
(bunnies) min max stdev average
fast-math 7332 7597 71 7432
this pr 7379 7779 108 7621 (102%)
FPBench (gdscript port http://fpbench.org/) (lower is better)
(ms)
fast-math 15441 16127 192 15764
this pr 15671 16855 326 16001 (99%)
Float_add (adding floats in a tight loop) (lower is better)
(sec)
fast-math 5.49 5.78 0.07 5.65
this pr 5.65 5.90 0.06 5.76 (98%)
Float_div (dividing floats in a tight loop) (lower is better)
(sec)
fast-math 11.70 12.36 0.18 11.99
this pr 11.92 12.32 0.12 12.12 (99%)
Float_mul (multiplying floats in a tight loop) (lower is better)
(sec)
fast-math 11.72 12.17 0.12 11.93
this pr 12.01 12.62 0.17 12.26 (97%)
I have also looked at FPS numbers for tps-demo, 3d platformer, 2d
platformer, and sponza and could not find any measurable difference.
I believe that given the issues and oft-reported (physics) glitches on
release builds I believe that the couple of percent of tight-loop
floating point performance regression is well worth it.
This fixes#24540 and fixes#24841
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