Is there any way of getting the following code to immediately return
True without performing the element-by-element comparison? Essentially
this boils down to checking whether pointers are equal before
comparing the contents.
Let's pt it this way: there's a hidden primitive called "reallyUnsafePointerEquality". It's named that for a reason.
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