From 463cfebdfd211e606b5bee8b407d9cb73e58bb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Halley Gotway <johnhg@ucar.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 18:03:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Per #3095, reorder for efficiency.

---
 src/basic/vx_math/is_bad_data.h | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/basic/vx_math/is_bad_data.h b/src/basic/vx_math/is_bad_data.h
index b0f9d82572..3861e1a082 100644
--- a/src/basic/vx_math/is_bad_data.h
+++ b/src/basic/vx_math/is_bad_data.h
@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ inline int is_bad_data(char a) {
 }
 
 inline int is_eq(double a, double b, double tol) {
-   if((is_bad_data(a) && is_bad_data(b)) ||
-      fabs(a - b) < tol) return 1;
-   else                  return 0;
+   if(fabs(a - b) < tol ||
+      (is_bad_data(a) &&
+       is_bad_data(b))) return 1;
+   else                 return 0;
 }
 
 inline int is_eq(double a, double b) {