* level than the whole method but without performing a runtime null check. That way, we can still
   * pass null inputs to LegacyConverter, and it can violate the contract of Converter.
   *
   * TODO(cpovirk): Could this be simplified if we modified implementations of LegacyConverter to
   * override methods (probably called "unsafeDoForward" and "unsafeDoBackward") with the same

   * level than the whole method but without performing a runtime null check. That way, we can still
   * pass null inputs to LegacyConverter, and it can violate the contract of Converter.
   *
   * TODO(cpovirk): Could this be simplified if we modified implementations of LegacyConverter to
   * override methods (probably called "unsafeDoForward" and "unsafeDoBackward") with the same

 * traditional exclusive locks. Although this increases the false positives that the locks detect
 * (i.e. cycles that will not actually result in deadlock), it simplifies the algorithm and
 * implementation considerably. The assumption is that a user of this factory wishes to eliminate
 * any cyclic acquisition ordering.
 *
 * <p><strong>Explicit Lock Acquisition Ordering</strong>
 *