1// Copyright 2019 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5package bytealg
6
7// Equal reports whether a and b
8// are the same length and contain the same bytes.
9// A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice.
10//
11// Equal is equivalent to bytes.Equal.
12// It is provided here for convenience,
13// because some packages cannot depend on bytes.
14func Equal(a, b []byte) bool {
15	// Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo allocates for these string conversions.
16	// There is a test for this in package bytes.
17	return string(a) == string(b)
18}
19