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cmp::Ordering vs comparison symbols (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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beginner question: What is the advantage of using cmp::Ordering::Less over "<", same for Greater and Equals?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'm guessing you're asking because you got a clippy lint. Using Ordering allows you to match the output therefore only calling partial_ord once, compared to using an if-else chain which might call it several times. In many/most cases this would probably be compiler optimized anyway but this makes it explicit.