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  • // Copyright 2019 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
    // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
    // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
    
    package bytealg
    
    // Equal reports whether a and b
    // are the same length and contain the same bytes.
    // A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice.
    //
    // Equal is equivalent to bytes.Equal.
    // It is provided here for convenience,
    // because some packages cannot depend on bytes.
    func Equal(a, b []byte) bool {
    	// Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo allocates for these string conversions.
    	// There is a test for this in package bytes.
    	return string(a) == string(b)
    }