return new Builder<>(Ordering.natural());
  }

  /**
   * Returns a builder that creates immutable sorted maps with an explicit comparator. If the
   * comparator has a more general type than the map's keys, such as creating a {@code
   * SortedMap<Integer, String>} with a {@code Comparator<Number>}, use the {@link Builder}
   * constructor instead.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code comparator} is null
   */

    return new Builder<>(Ordering.natural());
  }

  /**
   * Returns a builder that creates immutable sorted maps with an explicit comparator. If the
   * comparator has a more general type than the map's keys, such as creating a {@code
   * SortedMap<Integer, String>} with a {@code Comparator<Number>}, use the {@link Builder}
   * constructor instead.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code comparator} is null
   */

    // the keySet() of the delegate is only a Set and TreeMap.navigatableKeySet
    // is not available in GWT yet.  To keep the code simple and code size more,
    // we make a copy here, instead of creating a view of it.
    //
    // TODO: revisit if it's unbearably slow or when GWT supports
    // TreeMap.navigatbleKeySet().
    return ImmutableSortedSet.copyOf(comparator, sortedDelegate.keySet());
  }