diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a4111e16e..3a8059d3e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 - [Joshua C. Randall](https://github.com/jrandall) fixed a bug in the floating-point serialization.
 - [Aaron Burghardt](https://github.com/aburgh) implemented code to parse streams incrementally.
 - [Daniel Kopeček](https://github.com/dkopecek) fixed a bug in the compilation with GCC 5.0.
+- [Florian Weber](https://github.com/Florianjw) fixed a bug in and improved the performance of the comparison operators.
 
 Thanks a lot for helping out!
 
@@ -394,7 +395,7 @@ $ make
 $ ./json_unit
 
 ===============================================================================
-All tests passed (4463 assertions in 18 test cases)
+All tests passed (4558 assertions in 19 test cases)
 ```
 
 For more information, have a look at the file [.travis.yml](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/master/.travis.yml).
diff --git a/src/json.hpp b/src/json.hpp
index c4f9e8782..cb98b5af1 100644
--- a/src/json.hpp
+++ b/src/json.hpp
@@ -1812,6 +1812,7 @@ class basic_json
     {
         const auto lhs_type = lhs.type();
         const auto rhs_type = rhs.type();
+
         if (lhs_type == rhs_type)
         {
             switch (lhs_type)
@@ -1859,6 +1860,7 @@ class basic_json
     {
         const auto lhs_type = lhs.type();
         const auto rhs_type = rhs.type();
+
         if (lhs_type == rhs_type)
         {
             switch (lhs_type)
diff --git a/src/json.hpp.re2c b/src/json.hpp.re2c
index 94a6723bc..f302c7d53 100644
--- a/src/json.hpp.re2c
+++ b/src/json.hpp.re2c
@@ -1812,6 +1812,7 @@ class basic_json
     {
         const auto lhs_type = lhs.type();
         const auto rhs_type = rhs.type();
+
         if (lhs_type == rhs_type)
         {
             switch (lhs_type)
@@ -1859,6 +1860,7 @@ class basic_json
     {
         const auto lhs_type = lhs.type();
         const auto rhs_type = rhs.type();
+
         if (lhs_type == rhs_type)
         {
             switch (lhs_type)