(Yes, I didn't decrement $m when I simplified for posting.)

Ok, you're both right. Both suggestions are faster than my dizzy wheel.
Bitwise-and for power-of-two sizes is clearly fastest for indexing. And
incrementing and testing for equal is clearly the most general and only
slightly more complicated than the "straightforward" (slow)
"@a == $sz and shift @a; push @a,$val;"

But..., there's still this puzzlement: 
my $m=4; my $x=$m; $m--; my @a=(1..$m,0);
timethese(-10, {    wheel => sub {$x = $a[$x]},
                 equaland => sub {++$x==$m and $x=0},
                  mod2and => sub {$x++; $x &= $m;}
} );
Benchmark: running equaland, mod2and, wheel, each for at least 10 CPU 
+seconds...
  equaland: 192120.20/s
   mod2and: 182722.70/s
     wheel: 170109.49/s

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As expected. (Using, 4192 as array size yields only slightly slower results
and an SMP linux box yields identical proportions.)

Yet... 
my $m=4; my $x=$m; $m--; my @n=(1..$m,0); my @a=();
timethese(-10, {    wheelix => sub {$a[ $x = $n[$x] ] = $x },
                 equalandix => sub {$a[ ++$x==$m and $x=0 ] = $x },
                  mod2andix => sub {$a[ ++$x, $x &= $m];}
} );
equalandix: 119200.90/s
 mod2andix: 142736.03/s
   wheelix: 130290.06/s

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...moves equaland from first to third(!?!).

It must be something like what fundflow suggests. In such a tight loop,
the code for preinc and bitand is small enough to stay in cache -- and the
code for aelem is only loaded once -- and somehow this cuts off right at
the slightly more complicated preinc, eq and and.
Or something...


p

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Circular buffer instead of shift/push by petral
in thread Circular buffer instead of shift/push by petral

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