From 9926d89555927e9a995f744ad8747e2967b7358a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Protobuf Team Bot <protobuf-github-bot@google.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:30:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize LiteralByteString equals(LiteralByteString) to go
 straight to Arrays.equals() on the bytes, rather than falling back to a loop.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 819211918
---
 java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java b/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java
index 8d1d0c8d6ee79..4e94fda672e44 100644
--- a/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java
+++ b/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java
@@ -1555,8 +1555,7 @@ public final boolean equals(
         if (thisHash != 0 && thatHash != 0 && thisHash != thatHash) {
           return false;
         }
-
-        return equalsRange((LiteralByteString) other, 0, size());
+        return Arrays.equals(bytes, otherAsLiteral.bytes);
       } else {
         // RopeByteString and NioByteString.
         return other.equals(this);