* method is equivalent to {@code string.getBytes(UTF_8).length}, but is more efficient in both
   * time and space.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code sequence} contains ill-formed UTF-16 (unpaired
   *     surrogates)
   */
  public static int encodedLength(CharSequence sequence) {
    // Warning to maintainers: this implementation is highly optimized.
    int utf16Length = sequence.length();