Why does Object.opEquals *exist*

[Stewart Gordon]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Kristian Kilpi wrote:
> 
>> So the original question remains: why 'opEquals' returns int?
> 
> Walter says it is for performance reason, when e.g. sorting...
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/bugs/7933.html

I'm still not convinced that there's any way that opEquals can be made 
more efficient by returning int instead of bool.

Stewart.

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