https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103592
--- Comment #2 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- 23.13% 44783 a.out.vect a.out.vect [.] __perdida_m_MOD_generalized_hookes_law.constprop.0.isra.0# 2.40% 4641 a.out.vect a.out.vect [.] __perdida_m_MOD_generalized_hookes_law.constprop.1.isra.0# 2.37% 4613 a.out.novect a.out.novect [.] __perdida_m_MOD_generalized_hookes_law.constprop.0.isra.0# 1.23% 2383 a.out.vect libc-2.31.so [.] __memset_avx2_unaligned_erms # 0.35% 676 a.out.vect libc-2.31.so [.] __memset_avx2_unaligned # 0.20% 394 a.out.novect a.out.novect [.] __perdida_m_MOD_generalized_hookes_law.constprop.1.isra.0 we end up doing loop vectorization with a lot of invariants built up from scalars but only a known single vector iteration. We also have a local array that's only elided after vectorization causing final stores to require vector extracts. I think this is the usual case of vectorization constraining OOO execution in the face of the code being limited by load & store. We also fail to elide generalized_constitutive_tensor - FRE can do this in priciple - there's a duplicate PR for this and the situation is like generalized_constitutive_tensor = {}; ... generalized_constitutive_tensor[0] = _19; generalized_constitutive_tensor[1] = ISRA.833_76(D); generalized_constitutive_tensor[2] = ISRA.833_76(D); ... vect__14.843_125 = MEM <vector(4) real(kind=8)> [(real(kind=8) *)&generalized_constitutive_tensor]; where FRE could create a { _19, ISRA.833_76(D), ISRA.833_76(D), 0. } vector CTOR but that's only profitable if the stores go away. I have a patch to do that (w/o the costing). Note in the not vectorized case we are able to elide generalized_constitutive_tensor and also CSE a lot of the computations because the tensor only has 4 distinct values (and some are even zero). So it's really a very special case ...