diff --git a/Dalamud/Game/Gui/ChatGui.cs b/Dalamud/Game/Gui/ChatGui.cs
index d1563d825..113981b4a 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Game/Gui/ChatGui.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Game/Gui/ChatGui.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ using Dalamud.Game.Text.SeStringHandling.Payloads;
 using Dalamud.Hooking;
 using Dalamud.IoC;
 using Dalamud.IoC.Internal;
+using Dalamud.Utility;
 using Serilog;
 
 namespace Dalamud.Game.Gui
@@ -283,52 +284,6 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Gui
             }
         }
 
-        private static unsafe bool FastByteArrayCompare(byte[] a1, byte[] a2)
-        {
-            // Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Hafthor Stefansson
-            // Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license
-            // Ref: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-            // https://stackoverflow.com/a/8808245
-
-            if (a1 == a2) return true;
-            if (a1 == null || a2 == null || a1.Length != a2.Length)
-                return false;
-            fixed (byte* p1 = a1, p2 = a2)
-            {
-                byte* x1 = p1, x2 = p2;
-                var l = a1.Length;
-                for (var i = 0; i < l / 8; i++, x1 += 8, x2 += 8)
-                {
-                    if (*((long*)x1) != *((long*)x2))
-                        return false;
-                }
-
-                if ((l & 4) != 0)
-                {
-                    if (*((int*)x1) != *((int*)x2))
-                        return false;
-                    x1 += 4;
-                    x2 += 4;
-                }
-
-                if ((l & 2) != 0)
-                {
-                    if (*((short*)x1) != *((short*)x2))
-                        return false;
-                    x1 += 2;
-                    x2 += 2;
-                }
-
-                if ((l & 1) != 0)
-                {
-                    if (*((byte*)x1) != *((byte*)x2))
-                        return false;
-                }
-
-                return true;
-            }
-        }
-
         private void HandlePopulateItemLinkDetour(IntPtr linkObjectPtr, IntPtr itemInfoPtr)
         {
             try
@@ -381,14 +336,14 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Gui
                 }
 
                 var newEdited = parsedMessage.Encode();
-                if (!FastByteArrayCompare(oldEdited, newEdited))
+                if (!Util.FastByteArrayCompare(oldEdited, newEdited))
                 {
                     Log.Verbose("SeString was edited, taking precedence over StdString edit.");
                     message.RawData = newEdited;
                     // Log.Debug($"\nOLD: {BitConverter.ToString(originalMessageData)}\nNEW: {BitConverter.ToString(newEdited)}");
                 }
 
-                if (!FastByteArrayCompare(originalMessageData, message.RawData))
+                if (!Util.FastByteArrayCompare(originalMessageData, message.RawData))
                 {
                     allocatedString = Service<LibcFunction>.Get().NewString(message.RawData);
                     Log.Debug($"HandlePrintMessageDetour String modified: {originalMessageData}({messagePtr}) -> {message}({allocatedString.Address})");
@@ -396,14 +351,14 @@ namespace Dalamud.Game.Gui
                 }
 
                 var newEditedSender = parsedSender.Encode();
-                if (!FastByteArrayCompare(oldEditedSender, newEditedSender))
+                if (!Util.FastByteArrayCompare(oldEditedSender, newEditedSender))
                 {
                     Log.Verbose("SeString was edited, taking precedence over StdString edit.");
                     sender.RawData = newEditedSender;
                     // Log.Debug($"\nOLD: {BitConverter.ToString(originalMessageData)}\nNEW: {BitConverter.ToString(newEdited)}");
                 }
 
-                if (!FastByteArrayCompare(originalSenderData, sender.RawData))
+                if (!Util.FastByteArrayCompare(originalSenderData, sender.RawData))
                 {
                     allocatedStringSender = Service<LibcFunction>.Get().NewString(sender.RawData);
                     Log.Debug(
diff --git a/Dalamud/Utility/Util.cs b/Dalamud/Utility/Util.cs
index 61795e5f5..b3b370a9a 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Utility/Util.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Utility/Util.cs
@@ -44,6 +44,58 @@ namespace Dalamud.Utility
         /// </summary>
         public static string AssemblyVersion { get; } = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(ChatHandlers)).GetName().Version.ToString();
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Check two byte arrays for equality.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="a1">The first byte array.</param>
+        /// <param name="a2">The second byte array.</param>
+        /// <returns>Whether or not the byte arrays are equal.</returns>
+        public static unsafe bool FastByteArrayCompare(byte[]? a1, byte[]? a2)
+        {
+            // Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Hafthor Stefansson
+            // Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license
+            // Ref: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+            // https://stackoverflow.com/a/8808245
+
+            if (a1 == a2) return true;
+            if (a1 == null || a2 == null || a1.Length != a2.Length)
+                return false;
+            fixed (byte* p1 = a1, p2 = a2)
+            {
+                byte* x1 = p1, x2 = p2;
+                var l = a1.Length;
+                for (var i = 0; i < l / 8; i++, x1 += 8, x2 += 8)
+                {
+                    if (*((long*)x1) != *((long*)x2))
+                        return false;
+                }
+
+                if ((l & 4) != 0)
+                {
+                    if (*((int*)x1) != *((int*)x2))
+                        return false;
+                    x1 += 4;
+                    x2 += 4;
+                }
+
+                if ((l & 2) != 0)
+                {
+                    if (*((short*)x1) != *((short*)x2))
+                        return false;
+                    x1 += 2;
+                    x2 += 2;
+                }
+
+                if ((l & 1) != 0)
+                {
+                    if (*((byte*)x1) != *((byte*)x2))
+                        return false;
+                }
+
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets the git hash value from the assembly
         /// or null if it cannot be found.