checkNotNull(reason);
    /*
     * All elements of `futures` are completed, or this future has already completed and read
     * `futures` into a local variable (in preparation for propagating cancellation to them). In
     * either case, no one needs to read `futures` for cancellation purposes later. (And
     * cancellation purposes are the main reason to access `futures`, as discussed in its docs.)
     */

    return new String(array);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the longest string {@code prefix} such that {@code a.toString().startsWith(prefix) &&
   * b.toString().startsWith(prefix)}, taking care not to split surrogate pairs. If {@code a} and
   * {@code b} have no common prefix, returns the empty string.
   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  public static String commonPrefix(CharSequence a, CharSequence b) {

   *       collections intelligently fall back to a binary search tree if hash table collisions are
   *       detected. Rather than going to all the trouble of reimplementing this ourselves, we
   *       simply switch over to use the JDK implementation wholesale if probable hash flooding is
   *       detected, sacrificing the compactness guarantee in very rare cases in exchange for much
   *       more reliable worst-case behavior.

  }

  public void testVarargsMinAndMax() {
    // try the min and max values in all positions, since some values are proper
    // parameters and others are from the varargs array
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(9, 3, 0, 5, 8));
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(5, 9, 0, 3, 8));
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(5, 3, 9, 0, 8));
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(5, 3, 0, 9, 8));

  }

  public void testVarargsMinAndMax() {
    // try the min and max values in all positions, since some values are proper
    // parameters and others are from the varargs array
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(9, 3, 0, 5, 8));
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(5, 9, 0, 3, 8));
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(5, 3, 9, 0, 8));
    assertEquals(9, (int) numberOrdering.max(5, 3, 0, 9, 8));

   * turn, and does not create any threads of its own.
   *
   * <p>After execution begins on a thread from the {@code delegate} {@link Executor}, tasks are
   * polled and executed from a task queue until there are no more tasks. The thread will not be
   * released until there are no more tasks to run.
   *
   * <p>If a task is submitted while a thread is executing tasks from the task queue, the thread

    return new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
  }

  /**
   * There are three methods to implement {@link FileChannel#transferTo(long, long,
   * WritableByteChannel)}:
   *
   * <ol>
   *   <li>Use sendfile(2) or equivalent. Requires that both the input channel and the output
   *       channel have their own file descriptors. Generally this only happens when both channels

   * exercise null handling fail on those subcollections.
   */
  public abstract static class NullsBefore implements Comparator<@Nullable String>, Serializable {
    /*
     * We don't serialize this class in GWT, so we don't care about whether GWT will serialize this
     * field.
     */
    @GwtTransient private final String justAfterNull;

    protected NullsBefore(String justAfterNull) {
      if (justAfterNull == null) {

  }

  /**
   * Wraps around {@code TypeVariable<?>} to ensure that any two type variables are equal as long as
   * they are declared by the same {@link java.lang.reflect.GenericDeclaration} and have the same
   * name, even if their bounds differ.
   *
   * <p>While resolving a type variable from a {@code var -> type} map, we don't care whether the
   * type variable's bound has been partially resolved. As long as the type variable "identity"

  private final double[] array;

  /*
   * TODO(kevinb): evaluate the trade-offs of going bimorphic to save these two fields from most
   * instances. Note that the instances that would get smaller are the right set to care about
   * optimizing, because the rest have the option of calling `trimmed`.
   */

  private final transient int start; // it happens that we only serialize instances where this is 0