byte[] bufferData = buf.getBuffer();
        assertEquals((byte) 0xCD, bufferData[startIndex + alignmentBytes], "Least significant byte should be first");
        assertEquals((byte) 0x00, bufferData[startIndex + alignmentBytes + 1], "Most significant byte should be second");
    }

    /**
     * When given a buffer with sufficient length, decode performs
     * the inverse of encode.
     */

   *
   * <p>For the case of {@link RoundingMode#HALF_EVEN}, this implementation uses the IEEE 754
   * default rounding mode: if the two nearest representable values are equally near, the one with
   * the least significant bit zero is chosen. (In such cases, both of the nearest representable
   * values are even integers; this method returns the one that is a multiple of a greater power of
   * two.)
   *

   *
   * <p>For the case of {@link RoundingMode#HALF_EVEN}, this implementation uses the IEEE 754
   * default rounding mode: if the two nearest representable values are equally near, the one with
   * the least significant bit zero is chosen. (In such cases, both of the nearest representable
   * values are even integers; this method returns the one that is a multiple of a greater power of
   * two.)
   *

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## IMPORTANT WARNINGS

Pre-compressed input typically compresses in excess of 2GiB/s per core,
so performance impact should be minimal even if precompressed data is re-compressed.
Decompressing incompressible data has no significant performance impact.

Below is a list of common files and content-types which are typically not suitable for compression.

- Extensions

 | `gz`  | (GZIP)      |
 | `bz2` | (BZIP2)     |

   */
  public abstract long asLong();

  /**
   * If this hashcode has enough bits, returns {@code asLong()}, otherwise returns a {@code long}
   * value with {@code asBytes()} as the least-significant bytes and {@code 0x00} as the remaining
   * most-significant bytes.
   *
   * @since 14.0 (since 11.0 as {@code Hashing.padToLong(HashCode)})
   */
  public abstract long padToLong();

  /**

        expectedCrc,
        actualCrcHasher);
  }

  // From RFC 3720, Section 12.1, the polynomial generator is 0x11EDC6F41.
  // We calculate the constant below by:
  //   1. Omitting the most significant bit (because it's always 1). => 0x1EDC6F41
  //   2. Flipping the bits of the constant so we can process a byte at a time. => 0x82F63B78
  private static final int CRC32C_GENERATOR = 0x1EDC6F41; // 0x11EDC6F41

        // Three-byte form.
        if (index + 1 >= end) {
          return false;
        }
        int byte2 = bytes[index++];
        if (byte2 > (byte) 0xBF
            // Overlong? 5 most significant bits must not all be zero.
            || (byte1 == (byte) 0xE0 && byte2 < (byte) 0xA0)
            // Check for illegal surrogate codepoints.
            || (byte1 == (byte) 0xED && byte2 >= (byte) 0xA0)

│   ├── xml/           # XML processing utilities
│   └── ...            # Additional utility packages
└── src/test/java/      # Comprehensive test suite
```

## 📊 Performance Metrics

CoreLib 0.7.0 includes significant performance improvements through Java 21 optimizations:

- **5-15% faster** type conversions with pattern matching and switch expressions
- **Reduced memory allocation** in collection operations and bean copying

	return -1
}

// asciiSet is a 32-byte value, where each bit represents the presence of a
// given ASCII character in the set. The 128-bits of the lower 16 bytes,
// starting with the least-significant bit of the lowest word to the
// most-significant bit of the highest word, map to the full range of all
// 128 ASCII characters. The 128-bits of the upper 16 bytes will be zeroed,