linux: enable float operation on SSE unit

Potentially faster and requires to flush denormal float to 0
PCSX2 · Feb 9, 2016 · 253e801 · 253e801
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diff --git a/cmake/BuildParameters.cmake b/cmake/BuildParameters.cmake
@@ -232,7 +232,9 @@ endif()
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 option(USE_LTO "Enable LTO optimization (will likely break the build)")
 
-set(COMMON_FLAG "-pipe -fvisibility=hidden -pthread -fno-builtin-strcmp -fno-builtin-memcmp")
+# Note1: Builtin strcmp/memcmp was proved to be slower on Mesa than stdlib version.
+# Note2: float operation SSE is impacted by the PCSX2 SSE configuration. In particular, flush to zero denormal.
+set(COMMON_FLAG "-pipe -fvisibility=hidden -pthread -fno-builtin-strcmp -fno-builtin-memcmp -mfpmath=sse")
 if (DISABLE_SVU)
     set(COMMON_FLAG "${COMMON_FLAG} -DDISABLE_SVU")
 endif()

diff --git a/plugins/GSdx/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/GSdx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ set(Output GSdx-1.0.0)
 
 set(CommonFlags
     -fno-operator-names # because Xbyak uses and()/xor()/or()/not() function
-    -mfpmath=sse
     -fno-strict-aliasing
     -Wno-unknown-pragmas
     -Wno-parentheses