// It is analogous to the facilities of the [strings] package.
package bytes

import (
	"internal/bytealg"
	"math/bits"
	"unicode"
	"unicode/utf8"
	_ "unsafe" // for linkname
)

// Equal reports whether a and b
// are the same length and contain the same bytes.
// A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice.
func Equal(a, b []byte) bool {