e5b335d367
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
Godot Engine
Homepage: https://godotengine.org
2D and 3D cross-platform game engine
Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel. Games can be exported in one click to a number of platforms, including the major desktop platforms (Linux, Mac OSX, Windows) as well as mobile (Android, iOS) and web-based (HTML5) platforms.
Free, open source and community-driven
Godot is completely free and open source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. The users' games are theirs, down to the last line of engine code. Godot's development is fully independent and community-driven, empowering users to help shape their engine to match their expectations. It is supported by the Software Freedom Conservancy not-for-profit.
Before being open sourced in February 2014, Godot had been developed by Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur (both still maintaining the project) for several years as an in-house engine, used to publish several work-for-hire titles.
Getting the engine
Binary downloads
Official binaries for the Godot editor and the export templates can be found on the homepage.
Compiling from source
See the official docs for compilation instructions for every supported platform.
Community and contributing
Godot is not only an engine but an ever-growing community of users and engine developers. The main community channels are listed on the homepage.
To get in touch with the developers, the best way is to join the #godotengine IRC channel on Freenode.
To get started contributing to the project, see the contributing guide.
Documentation and demos
The official documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs. It is maintained by the Godot community in its own GitHub repository.
The class reference is also accessible from within the engine.
The official demos are maintained in their own GitHub repository as well.
There are also a number of other learning resources provided by the community, such as text and video tutorials, demos, etc. Consult the community channels for more info.
