The following fixes the documented(!) quadraticness in split_nonconstant_init_1 by simply marking to be removed constructor elements and doing that in a second run over the constructor.
More micro-optimizing would be possible by recording the first removed element index and special-casing removing of a single element. If you think that's worth the extra complexity I can work on that (hopefully the case we increase num_split_elts but not actually split is a bug...). Bootstrap / regtest running on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. OK if that passes? Thanks, Richard. 2019-06-11 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> PR c++/90801 * typeck2.c (split_nonconstant_init_1): Avoid ordered remove from CONSTRUCTOR by marking to remove elements and doing all of them in a O(n) scan. Index: gcc/cp/typeck2.c =================================================================== --- gcc/cp/typeck2.c (revision 272147) +++ gcc/cp/typeck2.c (working copy) @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ cxx_incomplete_type_error (location_t lo static bool split_nonconstant_init_1 (tree dest, tree init) { - unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT idx; + unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT idx, tidx; tree field_index, value; tree type = TREE_TYPE (dest); tree inner_type = NULL; @@ -657,7 +657,8 @@ split_nonconstant_init_1 (tree dest, tre if (!split_nonconstant_init_1 (sub, value)) complete_p = false; else - CONSTRUCTOR_ELTS (init)->ordered_remove (idx--); + /* Mark element for removal. */ + CONSTRUCTOR_ELT (init, idx)->index = NULL_TREE; num_split_elts++; } else if (!initializer_constant_valid_p (value, inner_type)) @@ -665,15 +666,8 @@ split_nonconstant_init_1 (tree dest, tre tree code; tree sub; - /* FIXME: Ordered removal is O(1) so the whole function is - worst-case quadratic. This could be fixed using an aside - bitmap to record which elements must be removed and remove - them all at the same time. Or by merging - split_non_constant_init into process_init_constructor_array, - that is separating constants from non-constants while building - the vector. */ - CONSTRUCTOR_ELTS (init)->ordered_remove (idx); - --idx; + /* Mark element for removal. */ + CONSTRUCTOR_ELT (init, idx)->index = NULL_TREE; if (TREE_CODE (field_index) == RANGE_EXPR) { @@ -711,6 +705,21 @@ split_nonconstant_init_1 (tree dest, tre num_split_elts++; } } + if (num_split_elts != 0) + { + /* Perform the delayed ordered removal of non-constant elements + we split out. */ + for (tidx = 0, idx = 0; idx < CONSTRUCTOR_NELTS (init); ++idx) + if (CONSTRUCTOR_ELT (init, idx)->index == NULL_TREE) + ; + else + { + if (tidx != idx) + *CONSTRUCTOR_ELT (init, tidx) = *CONSTRUCTOR_ELT (init, idx); + ++tidx; + } + vec_safe_truncate (CONSTRUCTOR_ELTS (init), tidx); + } break; case VECTOR_TYPE: