Alice did not much like keeping so close to her:  first,
because the Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was
exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder,
and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin.  However, she did not
like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.

  `The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of
keeping up the conversation a little.

   * finally block.
   *
   * Further optimizations of this algorithm become increasingly subtle. A wait that terminates
   * without the guard being satisfied (due to timeout, but not interrupt) can then immediately exit
   * 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

   * propagating it.
   *
   * <p>While it's not safe in the general case to ignore exceptions that are thrown when closing an
   * I/O resource, it should generally be safe in the case of a resource that's being used only for
   * reading, such as an {@code InputStream}. Unlike with writable resources, there's no chance that
   * a failure that occurs when closing the stream indicates a meaningful problem such as a failure

   * spread over each second. When the incoming request rate exceeds {@code permitsPerSecond} the
   * rate limiter will release one permit every {@code (1.0 / permitsPerSecond)} seconds. When the
   * rate limiter is unused, bursts of up to {@code permitsPerSecond} permits will be allowed, with
   * subsequent requests being smoothly limited at the stable rate of {@code permitsPerSecond}.

   * collection that is currently being modified by another thread.
   *
   * @throws ClassCastException if the elements are not mutually comparable
   * @throws NullPointerException if any of {@code elements} is null
   * @since 7.0 (source-compatible since 2.0)
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedSet<E> copyOf(Collection<? extends E> elements) {
    // Hack around E not being a subtype of Comparable.

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  private static final LazyLogger log = new LazyLogger(SequentialExecutor.class);

  enum WorkerRunningState {
    /** Runnable is not running and not queued for execution */
    IDLE,
    /** Runnable is not running, but is being queued for execution */
    QUEUING,
    /** runnable has been submitted but has not yet begun execution */
    QUEUED,
    RUNNING,
  }

  /** Underlying executor that all submitted Runnable objects are run on. */

 * whereToDiffer} produces no observable change in performance. We want to make sure that the array
 * equals implementation is *not* short-circuiting to prevent timing-based attacks. Being fast is
 * only a secondary goal.
 *
 * @author Kurt Alfred Kluever
 */
public class HashCodeBenchmark {

  // Use a statically configured random instance for all of the benchmarks

 * whereToDiffer} produces no observable change in performance. We want to make sure that the array
 * equals implementation is *not* short-circuiting to prevent timing-based attacks. Being fast is
 * only a secondary goal.
 *
 * @author Kurt Alfred Kluever
 */
public class HashCodeBenchmark {

  // Use a statically configured random instance for all of the benchmarks

      }
      dummy ^= sb.toString().length();
    }
    return dummy;
  }

  /**
   * Similar to the above, but keeps a boolean flag rather than checking for the string accumulated
   * so far being empty. As a result, it does not have the above-mentioned bug.
   */
  @Benchmark
  int booleanIfFirst(int reps) {
    int dummy = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < reps; i++) {
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();