and clean up equal operator

BUG=
R=bjaideep@ca.ibm.com, jyan@ca.ibm.com, joransiu@ca.ibm.com, machenbach@chromium.org, rossberg@chromium.org

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2961873002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#46301}