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

import (
	"internal/bytealg"
	"unicode"
	"unicode/utf8"
)

// 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 {
	// Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo allocates for these string conversions.
	return string(a) == string(b)
}