OpenCV - Fastest method to check if two images are 100% same or not

Question

There are many questions over here which checks if two images are "nearly" similar or not.

My task is simple. With OpenCV, I want to find out if two images are 100% identical or not.

They will be of same size but can be saved with different filenames.

Answer 1

the sum of the differences should be 0 (for all channels):

bool equal(const Mat & a, const Mat & b)
{
    if ( (a.rows != b.rows) || (a.cols != b.cols) )
        return false;
    Scalar s = sum( a - b );
    return (s[0]==0) && (s[1]==0) && (s[2]==0);
}