Java serialization is one way to implement this, however, despite its simplicity of implementation, it has several drawbacks:

- **Performance:**
Java's built-in serialization mechanism is often slower compared to other serialization solutions.
This is due to Java's use of reflection and the need to maintain a lot of metadata.

- **Size of Serialized Data:**

    this.ordering = ordering;
  }

  @Override
  public int compare(@CheckForNull T left, @CheckForNull T right) {
    if (left == right) {
      return 0;
    }
    if (left == null) {
      return RIGHT_IS_GREATER;
    }
    if (right == null) {
      return LEFT_IS_GREATER;
    }
    return ordering.compare(left, right);
  }

  @Override

 with its <<<DefaultArtifact>>> implementation ({{{./xref/org/apache/maven/artifact/DefaultArtifact.html}source}}).

 The jar file is executable and provides a little tool to display how Maven parses and compares versions:

+----+
$ java -jar maven-artifact-*.jar 3.2.4-alpha-1 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT 3.2.4.0
Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison result:
1. 3.2.4-alpha-1 == 3.2.4.alpha.1

import java.util.function.LongConsumer;
import java.util.stream.LongStream;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * An immutable array of {@code long} values, with an API resembling {@link List}.
 *
 * <p>Advantages compared to {@code long[]}:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>All the many well-known advantages of immutability (read <i>Effective Java</i>, third
 *       edition, Item 17).

import java.util.function.IntConsumer;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * An immutable array of {@code int} values, with an API resembling {@link List}.
 *
 * <p>Advantages compared to {@code int[]}:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>All the many well-known advantages of immutability (read <i>Effective Java</i>, third
 *       edition, Item 17).

// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package compare

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib"

	"istio.io/istio/pkg/util/protomarshal"
)

import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Benchmarks for {@link CharStreams#copy}.
 *
 * <p>{@link CharStreams#copy} has type specific optimizations for various common Appendable and
 * Reader implementations, this compares the performance of the different options.
 */
// These benchmarks allocate a lot of data so use a large heap
@VmOptions({"-Xms12g", "-Xmx12g", "-d64"})
public class CharStreamsCopyBenchmark {
  enum CopyStrategy {

import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Benchmarks for {@link CharStreams#copy}.
 *
 * <p>{@link CharStreams#copy} has type specific optimizations for various common Appendable and
 * Reader implementations, this compares the performance of the different options.
 */
// These benchmarks allocate a lot of data so use a large heap
@VmOptions({"-Xms12g", "-Xmx12g", "-d64"})
public class CharStreamsCopyBenchmark {
  enum CopyStrategy {

      buffer[bufferSize++] = elem;
      // uncheckedCastNullableTToT is safe because bufferSize > 0.
      if (comparator.compare(elem, uncheckedCastNullableTToT(threshold)) > 0) {
        threshold = elem;
      }
      // uncheckedCastNullableTToT is safe because bufferSize > 0.
    } else if (comparator.compare(elem, uncheckedCastNullableTToT(threshold)) < 0) {
      // Otherwise, we can ignore elem; we've seen k better elements.

// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package compare

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib"

	"istio.io/istio/pkg/util/protomarshal"
)

// ClusterDiff prints a diff between Istiod and Envoy clusters to the passed writer