Merge pull request #2942 from devitocodes/tweak-cire-scalar-aliases #595

Job	Run time
pytest-mpi (pytest-mpi-docker-gcc-arm)	21m 31s
pytest-mpi (pytest-mpi-docker-gcc)	29m 10s
pytest-mpi (3.10)	46m 9s
pytest-mpi (pytest-mpi-docker-icx)	33m 39s
pytest-mpi (3.11)	44m 24s
	2h 54m 53s

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