https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105643
--- Comment #7 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- It seems there are a lot of loops like the following in FrameImage for (x=0; x < (ssize_t) width; x++) { SetPixelPacket(frame_image,&matte,q,frame_indexes); q++; frame_indexes++; } and they are now vectorized with an alias runtime check and a vectorized epilogue. I'd say that's good. The "bad" is that we are unswitching all those loops twice: magick/decorate.c:605:25: optimized: Unswitching loop on condition: _1874 <= 0.0 magick/decorate.c:605:25: optimized: Unswitching loop on condition: _1874 >= 6.5535e+4 which means we have three copies to vectorize at least. Doesn't really explain your opt-info reports reporting :605 16 times. In fact, I don't see any vectorization with -march=skylake-avx512 here (but I didn't use -funroll-loops which will only make a difference on RTL so generally I'd avoid that). Maybe I need to check with a compiler that doesn't have some unswitching improvements queued (but the old should get those opportunities as well I think).