* <p>Defaults to 4. <b>Note:</b>The default may change in the future. If you care about this
   * value, you should always choose it explicitly.
   *
   * <p>The current implementation uses the concurrency level to create a fixed number of hashtable
   * segments, each governed by its own write lock. The segment lock is taken once for each explicit
   * write, and twice for each cache loading computation (once prior to loading the new value, and

   *
   * <pre>{@code
   * CharMatcher.is('a').replaceFrom("yaha", "oo")
   * }</pre>
   *
   * ... returns {@code "yoohoo"}.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> If the replacement is a fixed string with only one character, you are better
   * off calling {@link #replaceFrom(CharSequence, char)} directly.
   *
   * @param sequence the character sequence to replace matching characters in

   * This is a big deal - we're talking factors of 2-8 in microbenchmarks, not just 10-20%. (This is
   * a hotspot optimizer bug, which should be fixed, but that's a separate, big project).
   *
   * The coding pattern above is heavily used in java.util, e.g. in ArrayList. There is a
   * RangeCheckMicroBenchmark in the JDK that was used to test this.
   *

   * This is a big deal - we're talking factors of 2-8 in microbenchmarks, not just 10-20%. (This is
   * a hotspot optimizer bug, which should be fixed, but that's a separate, big project).
   *
   * The coding pattern above is heavily used in java.util, e.g. in ArrayList. There is a
   * RangeCheckMicroBenchmark in the JDK that was used to test this.
   *

   *
   * <pre>{@code
   * CharMatcher.is('a').replaceFrom("yaha", "oo")
   * }</pre>
   *
   * ... returns {@code "yoohoo"}.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> If the replacement is a fixed string with only one character, you are better
   * off calling {@link #replaceFrom(CharSequence, char)} directly.
   *
   * @param sequence the character sequence to replace matching characters in

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