https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118801
--- Comment #2 from David Binderman <dcb314 at hotmail dot com> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #1) > Note you might also want to use -fno-checking for the trunk. Thanks for the tip. Still a 26 times expansion. foundBugs $ time ../results/bin/gcc -c -w -g -O2 -fno-var-tracking -fno-checking bug1088.c real 0m0.258s user 0m0.235s sys 0m0.017s foundBugs $ time ../results/bin/gcc -c -w -g -O2 -fpeel-loops -fno-var-tracking -fno-checking bug1088.c real 0m7.378s user 0m6.196s sys 0m1.116s foundBugs $ Might an expansion of 10 times be a reasonable target ?