* The number of live elements in this segment's region. This does not include unset elements
     * which are awaiting cleanup.
     */
    volatile int count;

    /**
     * Number of updates that alter the size of the table. This is used during bulk-read methods to
     * make sure they see a consistent snapshot: If modCounts change during a traversal of segments

   * loading the value for this key, simply waits for that thread to finish and returns its loaded
   * value. Note that multiple threads can concurrently load values for distinct keys.
   *
   * <p>This method does not alter the state of this {@code CacheBuilder} instance, so it can be
   * invoked again to create multiple independent caches.
   *
   * @param loader the cache loader used to obtain new values