writer.write(actual, null, assembled);

        // check with getPom( baseName + "-expected" )
        File expected = getPom(baseName + "-expected");

        Diff diff = DiffBuilder.compare(expected)
                .withTest(actual)
                .ignoreComments()
                .ignoreWhitespace()
                .build();

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(@Nullable T left, @Nullable 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

 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning;

/**
 * Describes an artifact version in terms of its components, converts it to/from a string and
 * compares two versions.
 *
 */
public interface ArtifactVersion extends Comparable<ArtifactVersion> {
    int getMajorVersion();

    int getMinorVersion();

    int getIncrementalVersion();

- github.com/go-logr/logr: [v1.2.0 → v1.2.3](https://github.com/go-logr/logr/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.3)
- github.com/go-logr/zapr: [v1.2.0 → v1.2.3](https://github.com/go-logr/zapr/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.3)
- github.com/golangplus/testing: [af21d9c → v1.0.0](https://github.com/golangplus/testing/compare/af21d9c...v1.0.0)
- github.com/google/cadvisor: [v0.44.1 → v0.45.0](https://github.com/google/cadvisor/compare/v0.44.1...v0.45.0)

ommandLineParser$CaseInsensitiveStrin.class package org.apache.maven.wrapper.cli; final synchronized class CommandLineParser$CaseInsensitiveStrin implements java.util.Comparator { private void CommandLineParser$CaseInsensitiveStrin(); public int compare(String, String); } org/apache/maven/wrapper/cli/CommandLineParser$KnownOptionParserSta.class package org.apache.maven.wrapper.cli; synchronized class CommandLineParser$KnownOptionParserSta extends CommandLineParser$OptionParserState { private final...

pkg go/types, method (Checker) PkgNameOf(*ast.ImportSpec) *PkgName #62037
pkg go/types, type Alias struct #63223
pkg go/types, type Info struct, FileVersions map[*ast.File]string #62605
pkg go/version, func Compare(string, string) int #62039
pkg go/version, func IsValid(string) bool #62039
pkg go/version, func Lang(string) string #62039
pkg html/template, const ErrJSTemplate //deprecated #61619

  static final AllEqualOrdering INSTANCE = new AllEqualOrdering();

  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("UnusedVariable") // intentionally weird Comparator
  public int compare(@Nullable Object left, @Nullable Object right) {
    return 0;
  }

  @Override
  public <E extends @Nullable Object> List<E> sortedCopy(Iterable<E> iterable) {
    return Lists.newArrayList(iterable);
  }

- github.com/godbus/dbus/v5: [v5.0.3 → v5.0.4](https://github.com/godbus/dbus/v5/compare/v5.0.3...v5.0.4)
- github.com/golang/groupcache: [8c9f03a → 41bb18b](https://github.com/golang/groupcache/compare/8c9f03a...41bb18b)
- github.com/golang/protobuf: [v1.4.3 → v1.5.2](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/compare/v1.4.3...v1.5.2)
- github.com/google/btree: [v1.0.0 → v1.0.1](https://github.com/google/btree/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1)

 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