Go 1.15 provides native (*ecdsa.PublicKey).Equal method, but we can't drop our
own Equal because the types are different and there is still code using our
Equal (forcing it to convert types is counterproductive), while changing
(*PublicKey).Equal to use (*ecdsa.PublicKey).Equal internally with some kind of
(*ecdsa.PublicKey)(p).Equal((*ecdsa.PublicKey)(key))
slows it down:
name old time/op new time/op delta
PublicEqual-8 14.9ns ± 1% 18.4ns ± 2% +23.55% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
PublicEqual-8 0.00B 0.00B ~ (all equal)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
PublicEqual-8 0.00 0.00 ~ (all equal)
So leave it as is, but add this micro-bench. Refs. #1319.
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