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diff --git a/jsonpatch.py b/jsonpatch.py
index 5454f56..83a04a5 100644
--- a/jsonpatch.py
+++ b/jsonpatch.py
@@ -825,6 +825,13 @@ class DiffBuilder(object):
                 isinstance(dst, MutableSequence):
             self._compare_lists(_path_join(path, key), src, dst)
 
+        # To ensure we catch changes to JSON, we can't rely on a simple
+        # src == dst, or it would not recognize the difference between
+        # 1 and True, among other things. Using json.dumps is the most
+        # fool-proof way to ensure we catch type changes that matter to JSON
+        # and ignore those that don't. The performance of this could be
+        # improved by doing more direct type checks, but we'd need to be
+        # careful to accept type changes that don't matter when JSONified.
         elif json.dumps(src) == json.dumps(dst):
             return