[TINKERPOP-1180] Add more optimized binary operators to Operator.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.1-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0-incubating
• Component/s: process
• Assignee: Marko A. Rodriguez
• Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez
• Created: 26/Feb/16 15:48
• Updated: 11/Mar/16 15:01
• Resolved: 11/Mar/16 15:01

Description

We currently have Operator enum which has nice operators like add, assign, sum, max, min, etc. The problem with lots of the number-based implementations is that they reason about the number format using NumberHelper. I think we should add sumLong, sumInteger, and the like to allow classes the leverage Operator to bypass number-type-reasoning when they know it will be a long, integer, etc.

This is important for GraphComputer.Memory where reducers are binary operators and we use Operator.