public static <E extends @Nullable Object> CopyOnWriteArraySet<E> newCopyOnWriteArraySet(
      Iterable<? extends E> elements) {
    // We copy elements to an ArrayList first, rather than incurring the
    // quadratic cost of adding them to the COWAS directly.
    Collection<? extends E> elementsCollection =
        (elements instanceof Collection)
            ? (Collection<? extends E>) elements
            : Lists.newArrayList(elements);

   */
  private static <K, V> ImmutableSortedMap<K, V> fromEntries(
      Comparator<? super K> comparator,
      boolean sameComparator,
      Iterable<? extends Entry<? extends K, ? extends V>> entries) {
    // "adding" type params to an array of a raw type should be safe as
    // long as no one can ever cast that same array instance back to a
    // raw type.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

   * the other.
   *
   * <p>The resulting multimap's views have iterators that don't support {@code remove()}, but all
   * other methods are supported by the multimap and its views. When adding a key that doesn't
   * satisfy the predicate, the multimap's {@code put()}, {@code putAll()}, and {@code
   * replaceValues()} methods throw an {@link IllegalArgumentException}.
   *