But when checking benchmarks and comparisons you should keep the following in mind.

## Benchmarks and speed { #benchmarks-and-speed }

           * can be used with collections that may contain null. This collection is a collection of
           * non-null Entry objects (Entry objects that might contain null values but are not
           * themselves null), so we can treat it as a plain `Object[]`.
           */
          @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
          Object[] result = standardToArray();
          return result;
        }

        @Override

   * null} if no replacement should be made. This method is intended for use in tests through the
   * {@code EscaperAsserts} class; production users of {@link CharEscaper} should limit themselves
   * to its public interface.
   *
   * @param c the character to escape if necessary
   * @return the replacement string, or {@code null} if no escaping was needed
   */

    assertTrue(multimap.asMap() instanceof SortedMap);
  }

  // J2kt cannot translate the Comparable rawtype in a usable way (it becomes Comparable<Object>
  // but types are typically only Comparable to themselves).
  @SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes", "unchecked"})
  private static MultimapBuilderWithKeys<Comparable<?>> rawtypeToWildcard(
      MultimapBuilderWithKeys<Comparable> treeKeys) {
    return (MultimapBuilderWithKeys) treeKeys;

   * `Synchronized` doesn't guarantee that it will hold the mutex for those calls because callers
   * are responsible for taking the mutex themselves:
   * https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Collections.html#synchronizedCollection(java.util.Collection)
   *

   * `Synchronized` doesn't guarantee that it will hold the mutex for those calls because callers
   * are responsible for taking the mutex themselves:
   * https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Collections.html#synchronizedCollection(java.util.Collection)
   *

     * replacement character.
     *
     * Implementation note: An alternative to the following would be to make a map that simply
     * replaces the allowed ASCII whitespace characters with themselves and to set the minimum safe
     * character to 0x20. However this would slow down the escaping of simple strings that contain
     * \t, \n, or \r.
     */

   *
   * Then we declare the getters for these fields as @GwtIncompatible so that no one can try to use
   * them under J2CL—or, as an unfortunate side effect, under GWT. We do still give the fields
   * themselves their proper values under GWT, since GWT's EnumMap does need the Class instance.
   *
   * Note that sometimes these fields *do* have correct values under J2CL: They will if the caller

           * can be used with collections that may contain null. This collection is a collection of
           * non-null Entry objects (Entry objects that might contain null values but are not
           * themselves null), so we can treat it as a plain `Object[]`.
           */
          @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
          Object[] result = standardToArray();
          return result;
        }

        @Override

   * objects, and the array itself, can be null. That is for programmer convenience, when the
   * objects come from factory methods that are themselves {@code @Nullable}. In reality neither the
   * array nor its contents can be null, but it is not useful to force the use of {@code
   * requireNonNull} or the like just to assert that.
   *