*
 * <pre>{@code
 * FluentFuture<UserName> userName =
 *     ClosingFuture.submit(
 *             closer -> closer.eventuallyClose(database.newTransaction(), closingExecutor),
 *             executor)
 *         .transformAsync((closer, transaction) -> transaction.queryClosingFuture("..."), executor)
 *         .transform((closer, result) -> result.get("userName"), directExecutor())

    public LoadingValueReference() {
      this(LocalCache.<K, V>unset());
    }

    /*
     * TODO(cpovirk): Consider making this implementation closer to the mainline implementation.
     * (The difference was introduced as part of Java-8-specific changes in cl/132882204, but we
     * could probably make *some* of those changes here in the backport, too.)
     */

      // meant that sometimes a too-large threshold is calculated. However, this new threshold is
      // independent of the initial capacity, except that it won't be lower than the threshold
      // computed from that capacity. Because the internal table is only allocated on the first
      // write, we won't see copying because of the new threshold. So it is always OK to use the