if (reference == null) {
      throw new NullPointerException(lenientFormat(errorMessageTemplate, p1, p2, p3, p4));
    }
    return reference;
  }

  /*
   * All recent hotspots (as of 2009) *really* like to have the natural code
   *
   * if (guardExpression) {
   *    throw new BadException(messageExpression);
   * }
   *

   * tables, that otherwise encounter collisions for hash codes that do not differ in lower or upper
   * bits.
   *
   * @param h hash code
   */
  static int rehash(int h) {
    // Spread bits to regularize both segment and index locations,
    // using variant of single-word Wang/Jenkins hash.
    // TODO(kevinb): use Hashing/move this to Hashing?
    h += (h << 15) ^ 0xffffcd7d;