Why does Object.opEquals *exist*

[Bill Baxter]

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
> 
> --anders

Thanks for the link.  Not sure how it matters when sorting, because then 
you'd be using opCmp.  I'd certainly find the performance argument more 
convincing with some actual performance measurements to back it up, but 
oh well.  Much bigger fish to fry out there than the return value of opCmp.

--bb