Color32 should implement IEquatable<Color32>

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Back in 2017, unity added IEquatable to most structs such as Color, Vector2, Vector2Int, etc…

This greatly speeds up comparing them, since the == operator no longer needs to box them.

But Color32 did not make the cut. Comparing two Color32 values remains expensive and allocates.

I request for Color32 to implement IEquatable, it already has an InternalEquals method that does exactly what is needed (compare the rgba value).

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Hey,

Thanks for the suggestion, should be something quick so I’ll take a look at adding it now.
If we are lucky I may be able to get it into Unity 6 :slight_smile:

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Awesome, thank you!

Please also consider adding a GetHashCode() method that returns the rgba value. It would make it efficient to add them in sets and use them in dictionaries.

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Just did, it was needed for the Equals(object) version.

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One thing I never understood was why both Color & Color32 were not serializable. I should ask someone internally. Maybe an oversight.

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Hey this has landed into 6000.0.3f1 :slight_smile:

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Fantastic news! thank you so much @karl_jones

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