diff --git a/core/trino-spi/src/main/java/io/trino/spi/type/AbstractVariableWidthType.java b/core/trino-spi/src/main/java/io/trino/spi/type/AbstractVariableWidthType.java
index 67c20d0dda50..6ab5146ea68e 100644
--- a/core/trino-spi/src/main/java/io/trino/spi/type/AbstractVariableWidthType.java
+++ b/core/trino-spi/src/main/java/io/trino/spi/type/AbstractVariableWidthType.java
@@ -363,7 +363,13 @@ private static boolean equalOperator(
                 leftBytes = leftVariableSizeSlice;
                 leftOffset = leftVariableSizeOffset;
             }
-            return rightRawSlice.equals(rightRawSliceOffset, rightLength, wrappedBuffer(leftBytes, leftOffset, leftLength), 0, leftLength);
+            return Arrays.equals(
+                    rightRawSlice.byteArray(),
+                    rightRawSlice.byteArrayOffset() + rightRawSliceOffset,
+                    rightRawSlice.byteArrayOffset() + rightRawSliceOffset + rightLength,
+                    leftBytes,
+                    leftOffset,
+                    leftOffset + leftLength);
         }
 
         @ScalarOperator(XX_HASH_64)
@@ -396,7 +402,7 @@ private static long xxHash64Operator(
                 bytes = variableSizeSlice;
                 offset = variableSizeOffset;
             }
-            return XxHash64.hash(wrappedBuffer(bytes, offset, length));
+            return XxHash64.hash(bytes, offset, length);
         }
     }