// Filename: renderEffect.I
// Created by:  drose (14Mar02)
//
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//
// PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
// Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
//
// All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
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// with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
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//     Function: RenderEffect::compare_to
//       Access: Published
//  Description: Provides an arbitrary ordering among all unique
//               RenderEffects, so we can store the essentially
//               different ones in a big set and throw away the rest.
//
//               This method is not needed outside of the RenderEffect
//               class because all equivalent RenderEffect objects are
//               guaranteed to share the same pointer; thus, a pointer
//               comparison is always sufficient.
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INLINE int RenderEffect::
compare_to(const RenderEffect &other) const {
  // First, we compare the types; if they are of different types then
  // they sort differently.
  TypeHandle type = get_type();
  TypeHandle other_type = other.get_type();
  if (type != other_type) {
    return type.get_index() - other_type.get_index();
  }

  // We only call compare_to_impl() if they have the same type.
  return compare_to_impl(&other);
}