|  | // 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) | 
|  | } |