* them, even though they usually won't be needed. If you have such arguments, use the conventional
 * if/throw idiom instead.
 *
 * <p>Depending on your message arguments, memory may be allocated for boxing and varargs array
 * creation. However, the methods of this class have a large number of overloads that prevent such
 * allocations in many common cases.
 *
 * <p>The message string is not formatted unless the exception will be thrown, so the cost of the

       * elements from each bin must either stay at same index, or move with a power of two offset.
       * We eliminate unnecessary node creation by catching cases where old nodes can be reused
       * because their next fields won't change. Statistically, at the default threshold, only

    return new Builder<>(Ordering.natural());
  }

  /**
   * Returns a builder that creates immutable sorted maps with an explicit comparator. If the
   * comparator has a more general type than the map's keys, such as creating a {@code
   * SortedMap<Integer, String>} with a {@code Comparator<Number>}, use the {@link Builder}
   * constructor instead.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code comparator} is null
   */