libgo/go/internal/bytealg/equal_generic.go

   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
   5 package 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.
  14 func 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 }