* already been determined.
   */
  public abstract <T extends @Nullable Object> ComparisonChain compare(
      @ParametricNullness T left, @ParametricNullness T right, Comparator<T> comparator);

  /**
   * Compares two {@code int} values as specified by {@link Ints#compare}, <i>if</i> the result of
   * this comparison chain has not already been determined.
   */

   * eliminate duplicate keys (for buildKeepingLast()) then we have to ensure that a later call to
   * buildOrThrow() will still throw as if the duplicates had not been eliminated. And the exception
   * message must mention two values that were associated with the duplicate key in two different
   * calls to Builder.put (though we don't really care *which* two values if there were more than

    stack.addTearDown(tearDownOne);

    final Callback callback =
        new Callback() {
          @Override
          public void run() {
            assertEquals(
                "tearDownTwo should have been run before tearDownOne", false, tearDownOne.ran);
          }
        };

    final SimpleTearDown tearDownTwo = new SimpleTearDown(callback);
    stack.addTearDown(tearDownTwo);

    }

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      loader.reset();
      assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(VALUE_PREFIX + i), cache.getUnchecked(KEY_PREFIX + i));
      assertFalse("Creator should not have been called @#" + i, loader.wasCalled());
    }

    CacheTesting.expireEntries((LoadingCache<?, ?>) cache, EXPIRING_TIME, ticker);

    assertEquals("Map must be empty by now", 0, cache.size());

   * of tasks submitted by {@code invokeAll} or {@code invokeAny}, tasks will run serially on the
   * calling thread. Tasks are run to completion before a {@code Future} is returned to the caller
   * (unless the executor has been shutdown).
   *
   * <p>The returned executor is backed by the executor returned by {@link
   * MoreExecutors#newDirectExecutorService} and subject to the same constraints.
   *

   *     UTF-8, use {@code write(s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))}.
   */
  @Deprecated
  @Override
  void writeBytes(String s);

  /** Returns the contents that have been written to this instance, as a byte array. */
  byte[] toByteArray();

   * the monitor without signalling. If it timed out without being signalled, it does not need to
   * "pass on" the signal to another thread. If it *was* signalled, then its guard must have been
   * satisfied at the time of signal, and has since been modified by some other thread to be
   * non-satisfied before reacquiring the lock, and that other thread takes over the responsibility
   * of signaling the next waiter.
   *

 * <pre>{@code
 * double myMedian = median().compute(myDataset);
 * }</pre>
 *
 * where {@link #median()} has been statically imported.
 *
 * <p>To compute the 99th percentile:
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * double myPercentile99 = percentiles().index(99).compute(myDataset);
 * }</pre>
 *
 * where {@link #percentiles()} has been statically imported.
 *
 * <p>To compute median and the 90th and 99th percentiles:
 *
 * <pre>{@code

                // requireNonNull is safe because the first `size` elements have been filled in.
                requireNonNull(e1);
                requireNonNull(e2);
                return comparator.compare(e1.getKey(), e2.getKey());
              });
          // requireNonNull is safe because the first `size` elements have been filled in.
          Entry<K, V> firstEntry = requireNonNull(entryArray[0]);

    // be deleted.
    Map<K, @Nullable V> duplicates = null;
    int dupCount = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
      // requireNonNull is safe because the first `n` elements have been filled in.
      entryArray[i] = makeImmutable(requireNonNull(entryArray[i]));
      K key = entryArray[i].getKey();
      V value = entryArray[i].getValue();
      V oldValue = delegateMap.put(key, value);