If it's of any interest. I went back to first principles and came up with this which verified correct and was about 12% quicker than your original. 

@items = grep { 
    if (!exists $del{$_}) { 
        $i++;
        1;
    } else {
        $index -= 1 if $i <= $index;
        0 ;
    }
} @items;

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Then I realised that by pre-incrementing $i, it would never be zero so I could drop the 1;.

That the -= 1 if ($i <=$index) was identical to -=($i <= $index);

The 'then' part of the if could then be replaced with and and the else> with or.

The result is the improvement of +20% performance.

Whether the reduction in readability is worth it is a matter of choice and the application. If the list is big and the deletions frequent and it was running as part of a CGI for instance, it probably is. Other situations you have to judge on a case by case basis.

Personally, I would rather see 3 lines of comment explaining one efficient, (correct:) line of code, than 3 lines of self documenting code, but that is very much a personal preference.

Well It's better than the Abottoire, but Yorkshire!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: round-robin on varying sequence by BrowserUk
in thread round-robin on varying sequence by dpuu

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