return bytealg.Compare(a, b)
}

// explode splits s into a slice of UTF-8 sequences, one per Unicode code point (still slices of bytes),
// up to a maximum of n byte slices. Invalid UTF-8 sequences are chopped into individual bytes.
func explode(s []byte, n int) [][]byte {
	if n <= 0 || n > len(s) {
		n = len(s)
	}
	a := make([][]byte, n)
	var size int
	na := 0
	for len(s) > 0 {
		if na+1 >= n {
			a[na] = s
			na++