int getInitialCapacity() {
    return (initialCapacity == UNSET_INT) ? DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY : initialCapacity;
  }

  /**
   * Guides the allowed concurrency among update operations. Used as a hint for internal sizing. The
   * table is internally partitioned to try to permit the indicated number of concurrent updates
   * without contention. Because assignment of entries to these partitions is not necessarily

   */
  public static String join(String separator, long... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 5);
    builder.append(toString(array[0]));
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

   */
  public static String join(String separator, int... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 5);
    builder.append(toString(array[0]));
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

   */
  public static String join(String separator, boolean... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 7);
    builder.append(array[0]);
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

   */
  public static String join(String separator, boolean... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 7);
    builder.append(array[0]);
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

   */
  public static String join(String separator, short... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 6);
    builder.append(array[0]);
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

   */
  public static String join(String separator, short... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 6);
    builder.append(array[0]);
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

   */
  public static String join(String separator, int... array) {
    checkNotNull(separator);
    if (array.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }

    // For pre-sizing a builder, just get the right order of magnitude
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(array.length * 5);
    builder.append(array[0]);
    for (int i = 1; i < array.length; i++) {

    // TODO(cpovirk): Consider using Object[] anyway.
    E[] array = (E[]) elements.toArray();
    /*
     * For a Set, we guess that it contains no duplicates. That's just a guess for purpose of
     * sizing; if the Set uses different equality semantics, it might contain duplicates according
     * to equals(), and we will deduplicate those properly, albeit at some cost in allocations.
     */
    int expectedSize =

      // Reading all the data as a byte array is more efficient than the default read()
      // implementation because:
      // 1. the string constructor can avoid an extra copy most of the time by correctly sizing the
      //    internal char array (hard to avoid using StringBuilder)
      // 2. we avoid extra copies into temporary buffers altogether