From 0b630aea2793158b43d0e18f2f50280bfb27c4b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshavardhana <harsha@harshavardhana.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:00:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] use bytes.Equal rather than bytes.Compare

---
 matrix.go      | 5 +----
 reedsolomon.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/matrix.go b/matrix.go
index e4b3748..1a59bc1 100644
--- a/matrix.go
+++ b/matrix.go
@@ -178,10 +178,7 @@ func (m matrix) SwapRows(r1, r2 int) error {
 // IsSquare will return true if the matrix is square
 // and nil if the matrix is square
 func (m matrix) IsSquare() bool {
-	if len(m) != len(m[0]) {
-		return false
-	}
-	return true
+	return len(m) == len(m[0])
 }
 
 // errSingular is returned if the matrix is singular and cannot be inversed
diff --git a/reedsolomon.go b/reedsolomon.go
index 4b95c93..3fe91f1 100644
--- a/reedsolomon.go
+++ b/reedsolomon.go
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ func (r reedSolomon) checkSomeShards(matrixRows, inputs, toCheck [][]byte, outpu
 			}
 
 			for i, calc := range outputs {
-				if bytes.Compare(calc, toCheck[i][start:start+do]) != 0 {
+				if !bytes.Equal(calc, toCheck[i][start:start+do]) {
 					mu.Lock()
 					same = false
 					mu.Unlock()