*
 * <p><b>For users targeting Android API level 24 or higher:</b> This class will eventually
 * implement {@code BiPredicate<T, T>} (as it does in the main Guava artifact), but we currently
 * target a lower API level. In the meantime, if you have support for method references you can use
 * an equivalence as a bi-predicate like this: {@code myEquivalence::equivalent}.
 *

   * iterables are equivalent to one another.
   *
   * <p>Note that this method performs a similar function for equivalences as {@link
   * com.google.common.collect.Ordering#lexicographical} does for orderings.
   *
   * <p>The returned object is serializable if this object is serializable.
   *
   * @since 10.0
   */
  @GwtCompatible(serializable = true)