*
   * <p>Why <i>not</i> just add {@code SuppressWarnings}? The problem is that this method is
   * typically useful for {@code return} statements. That leaves the code with two options: Either
   * add the suppression to the whole method (which turns off checking for a large section of code),
   * or extract a variable, and put the suppression on that. However, a local variable typically

 *
 * <p>A call to any of the <i>enter</i> methods with <b>void</b> return type should always be
 * followed immediately by a <i>try/finally</i> block to ensure that the current thread leaves the
 * monitor cleanly:
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * monitor.enter();
 * try {
 *   // do things while occupying the monitor
 * } finally {
 *   monitor.leave();
 * }
 * }</pre>
 *

 * even when the result of the comparison is already known from previous {@code .compare} calls.
 * That can be expensive.
 *
 * @author Mark Davis
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public abstract class ComparisonChain {
  private ComparisonChain() {}

seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay
far below her.

  `What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice.  `And where
HAVE my shoulders got to?  And oh, my poor hands, how is it I
can't see you?'  She was moving them about as she spoke, but no
result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the
distant green leaves.

  As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her

   *
   * <p>Why <i>not</i> just add {@code SuppressWarnings}? The problem is that this method is
   * typically useful for {@code return} statements. That leaves the code with two options: Either
   * add the suppression to the whole method (which turns off checking for a large section of code),
   * or extract a variable, and put the suppression on that. However, a local variable typically

   *
   * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional}:</b> this class leaves the specific choice of
   * hash code unspecified, unlike the Java 8+ equivalent.
   */
  @Override
  public abstract int hashCode();

  /**
   * Returns a string representation for this instance.
   *
   * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional}:</b> this class leaves the specific string

 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CommonObjectUtilitiesExplained#comparecompareto">{@code
 * ComparisonChain}</a>.
 *
 * @author Mark Davis
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public abstract class ComparisonChain {
  private ComparisonChain() {}

 * including those in many JDK classes.
 *
 * <p>{@code Object.hashCode} implementations tend to be very fast, but have weak collision
 * prevention and <i>no</i> expectation of bit dispersion. This leaves them perfectly suitable for
 * use in hash tables, because extra collisions cause only a slight performance hit, while poor bit
 * dispersion is easily corrected using a secondary hash function (which all reasonable hash table

    // (b) Waiting for the single guard to become satisfied.
    // (c) Occupying the monitor and awaiting the tearDownLatch.
    //
    // Except for (c), every thread should occupy the monitor very briefly, and every thread leaves
    // the monitor with the guard satisfied. Therefore as soon as tearDownLatch is triggered, we
    // should be able to enter the monitor, and then we set the guard to satisfied for the benefit

    //     imagine a line separating the first block from the second, we can proceed by exchanging
    //     the smaller of these blocks with the far end of the other one. That leaves us with a
    //     smaller version of the same problem.
    //     Say we are rotating abcdefgh by 5. We start with abcde|fgh. The smaller block is [fgh]: