fix: inconsistences in individual comparison #386
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Description
Currently there are few places in the code that try to achieve contradictory optimization targets: some operators treat "lesser" individuals as better, some treat "greater" ones as better.
This PR aims to clean things up and target only minimization ("lesser" individuals are "better").
Maximization can be achieved by implementing custom individual type with custom
Ord
trait implementation.TODO: Implement MinIndividual & MaxIndividual types in the ecrs library, so both types of optimalization are available for user out of the box.
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