Here's a funny question to type out: Is there a way to read the circular buffer from beginning to end? That is, in a ten position read buffer that's addressed from 0 to 9 before looping back to 0, is there a way to get all ten values of the buffer in order, starting from that 0, regardless of how many times it's looped during continuous sampling? RelativeTo doesn't make it straight forward: First Sample will be long gone after the first loop, Current Read Position might not be set to the first address, and we can't offset on Most Recent Sample since it has a 9/10 chance of not being aligned correctly. In our use case we're sampling a periodic event at ten times per cycle, and we need the most recent samples at all ten times, but it doesn't matter if 0-3 are from this cycle while 4-9 are the most recent from the previous cycle. Also, I'm using the number 10 to simplify; we're actually doing thousands. The best I can tell, the only way to do this is to make sure all reads actually are 10 samples long to maintain the read alignment. It would be nice not to have that limitation, though. Thanks for any hints.

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Thanks for your attention and advice, Kevin, I appreciate it.

It sounds like that's the best we can do, and while I'm still not really comfortable with the nondeterminism and race condition that presents, I'll have to see if I can make my peace with it.

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