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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)
+}