RFR: CODETOOLS-7902829: JMH Statistics implementations do not follow Comparable spec [v2]

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:21:05 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> `Comparable.compareTo` spec says: "Returns a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as this object is less than, equal to, or greater than the specified object."
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>> Unfortunately, that is not followed by JMH Statistics, because they get the order wrong. The tests that are supposed to catch this are also wrong.
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> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into CODETOOLS-7902829-statistics-compareTo
>  - CODETOOLS-7902829: JMH Statistics implementations do not follow Comparable spec

This is a good suggestion, done so.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jmh/pull/21