Implement a helper method suppressing the ReferenceEquality error prone
warning and use it to fix this warning in static equals methods where
this comparison is used to implement fast path of static equals
implementation.
See https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/ReferenceEquality
Change-Id: I33538a3406007d24efec3a504e031ca1069572ed
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>