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The compiler has advanced enough that it is cheaper
to convert to strings than to go through the assembly
trampolines to call runtime.memequal.

Simplify Equal accordingly, and cull dead code from bytealg.

While we're here, simplify Equal's documentation.

Fixes #31587

Change-Id: Ie721d33f9a6cbd86b1d873398b20e7882c2c63e9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/173323


Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>