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TimeBench, a flexible, easy-to-use, and reusable software library written in Java that provides foundational data structures and algorithms for time- oriented data in Visual Analytics.

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package timeBench.data.util;

// TODO javadoc ????
/**
 * Implements an interval whose endpoints are real numbers.
 */

public class DefaultIntervalComparator implements IntervalComparator {

	public boolean match(long lo1, long hi1, long lo2, long hi2) {
    	return lo1 <= hi2 && lo2 <= hi1;
	}

	@Override
	public int compare(long lo1, long hi1, long lo2, long hi2) {
		if (lo1 < lo2)
			return -1;
		else if (lo1 == lo2)
		    // TODO sort by hi, if lo are equal?
			return 0;
		else
			return 1;
	}
}