* the map. Besides being slightly shorter than code that uses {@link #getMap()}, it also ensures
   * that callers don't pass an {@link Entry} by mistake.
   */
  protected V get(K key) {
    return getMap().get(key);
  }

  protected final K k0() {
    return e0().getKey();
  }

  protected final V v0() {
    return e0().getValue();
  }

   * generated using this are byte-wise identical to those created using the C++ version, but note
   * that this uses unsigned integers (see {@link com.google.common.primitives.UnsignedInts}).
   * Comparisons between the two should take this into account.
   *
   * <p>Fingerprint2011() is a form of Murmur2 on strings up to 32 bytes and a form of CityHash for
   * longer strings. It could have been one or the other throughout. The main advantage of the

 *
 * <p>If the precondition is not met, the {@code Preconditions} method throws an unchecked exception
 * of a specified type, which helps the method in which the exception was thrown communicate that
 * its caller has made a mistake. This allows constructs such as
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * public static double sqrt(double value) {
 *   if (value < 0) {
 *     throw new IllegalArgumentException("input is negative: " + value);
 *   }

  protected static final boolean expensiveTests = Boolean.getBoolean("jsr166.expensiveTests");

  /**
   * If true, report on stdout all "slow" tests, that is, ones that take more than profileThreshold
   * milliseconds to execute.
   */
  private static final boolean profileTests = Boolean.getBoolean("jsr166.profileTests");

  /**

     * exactly matching hash codes, which would cause construction to take O(n^2), but can't detect
     * e.g. hash codes adversarially designed to go into ascending table locations, which keeps
     * construction O(n) (as desired) but then can have O(n) queries later.
     *
     * <p>If this returns false, then no query can take more than O(log n).
     *

        @SuppressWarnings("nullness") // safe because we pass sort() a range that contains real Ts
        T[] castBuffer = (T[]) buffer;
        // We've already taken O(k log k), let's make sure we don't take longer than O(k log k).
        Arrays.sort(castBuffer, left, right + 1, comparator);
        break;
      }
    }
    bufferSize = k;

    threshold = uncheckedCastNullableTToT(buffer[minThresholdPosition]);

@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
/*
 * 1. The type parameter is <T> rather than <T extends @Nullable> so that we can use T in the
 * doForward and doBackward methods to indicate that the parameter cannot be null. (We also take
 * advantage of that for convertAll, as discussed on that method.)
 *
 * 2. The supertype of this class could be `Function<@Nullable A, @Nullable B>`, since

  protected static final boolean expensiveTests = Boolean.getBoolean("jsr166.expensiveTests");

  /**
   * If true, report on stdout all "slow" tests, that is, ones that take more than profileThreshold
   * milliseconds to execute.
   */
  private static final boolean profileTests = Boolean.getBoolean("jsr166.profileTests");

  /**

   * of ~1/5000, meaning that the other thread's get() call nearly always completes within 20ms if
   * it's going to complete at all).
   *
   * <p>[*] To avoid hangs, I've disabled the in-thread calls. This makes the test take (very
   * roughly) 2.5s longer. (2.5s is also the maximum length of time we will wait for a timed get
   * that is expected to succeed; the fact that the numbers match is only a coincidence.) See the

     * at table entries if it is 0.
     *
     * - All (synchronized) write operations should write to the "count" field after structurally
     * changing any bin. The operations must not take any action that could even momentarily cause a
     * concurrent read operation to see inconsistent data. This is made easier by the nature of the