* is the only one in use, but if we encounter nested concatenations, we start a deque of
     * meta-iterators rather than letting the nesting get arbitrarily deep.  This keeps each
     * operation O(1).
     */

    private @Nullable Iterator<? extends Iterator<? extends T>> topMetaIterator;

    // Only becomes nonnull if we encounter nested concatenations.

   * specified supplier. Each input element is mapped to a key and a stream of values, each of which
   * are put into the resulting {@code Multimap}, in the encounter order of the stream and the
   * encounter order of the streams of values.
   *
   * <p>Example:
   *
   * {@snippet :
   * static final ListMultimap<Character, Character> FIRST_LETTER_MULTIMAP =

   * elements.
   *
   * <p>If the mapped keys contain duplicates (according to the comparator), the values are merged
   * using the specified merging function. Entries will appear in the encounter order of the first
   * occurrence of the key.
   *
   * @since 33.2.0 (available since 21.0 in guava-jre)
   */
  @IgnoreJRERequirement // Users will use this only if they're already using streams.

   * with an implementation specialized for enums. Unlike {@link ImmutableSet#toImmutableSet}, the
   * resulting set will iterate over elements in their enum definition order, not encounter order.
   *
   * @since 33.2.0 (available since 21.0 in guava-jre)
   */
  @IgnoreJRERequirement // Users will use this only if they're already using streams.

   * Applies a supplemental hash function to a given hash code, which defends against poor quality
   * hash functions. This is critical when the concurrent hash map uses power-of-two length hash
   * 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,