* @return the value associated with {@code key}; <b>must not be null</b>
   * @throws Exception if unable to load the result
   * @throws InterruptedException if this method is interrupted. {@code InterruptedException} is
   *     treated like any other {@code Exception} in all respects except that, when it is caught,
   *     the thread's interrupt status is set
   */
  public abstract V load(K key) throws Exception;

  /**

 * I'm not completely sure that this is the right choice, but it has various advantages:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>An annotation named just "Suppress" might someday be treated by a non-Android tool as a
 *       suppression. This would follow the precedent of many of our annotation processors, which
 *       look for any annotation named, e.g., "GwtIncompatible," regardless of package.

   *
   * <p>This method is equivalent to {@code tryAcquire(1, timeout, unit)}.
   *
   * @param timeout the maximum time to wait for the permit. Negative values are treated as zero.
   * @param unit the time unit of the timeout argument
   * @return {@code true} if the permit was acquired, {@code false} otherwise

   * recognized.
   *
   * @param template a string containing zero or more {@code "%s"} placeholder sequences. {@code
   *     null} is treated as the four-character string {@code "null"}.
   * @param args the arguments to be substituted into the message template. The first argument

   *
   * @since 8.0
   */
  public static final byte SOH = 1;

  /**
   * Start of Text: A communication control character which precedes a sequence of characters that
   * is to be treated as an entity and entirely transmitted through to the ultimate destination.
   * Such a sequence is referred to as "text." STX may be used to terminate a sequence of characters
   * started by SOH.
   *
   * @since 8.0
   */

   * to prove its primality. Values from miller-rabin.appspot.com.
   *
   * NOTE: We could get slightly better bases that would be treated as unsigned, but benchmarks
   * showed negligible performance improvements.
   */
  private static final long[][] millerRabinBaseSets = {
    {291830, 126401071349994536L},

   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> if mutability is not required, use {@link ImmutableList#of()} instead.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method is now unnecessary and should be treated as deprecated. Instead,
   * use the {@code ArrayList} {@linkplain ArrayList#ArrayList() constructor} directly, taking
   * advantage of <a href="http://goo.gl/iz2Wi">"diamond" syntax</a>.
   */

   */
  public static <T> Optional<T> absent() {
    return Absent.withType();
  }

  /**
   * Returns an {@code Optional} instance containing the given non-null reference. To have {@code
   * null} treated as {@link #absent}, use {@link #fromNullable} instead.
   *
   * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional}:</b> no differences.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code reference} is null
   */

   *
   * <p><b>Java 7+ users:</b> this constant should be treated as deprecated; use {@link
   * java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#ISO_8859_1} instead.
   *
   */
  public static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");

  /**
   * UTF-8: eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 7+ users:</b> this constant should be treated as deprecated; use {@link

  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the given {@code int} as a {@code long}, when treated as unsigned.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> use {@link Integer#toUnsignedLong(int)} instead.
   */
  public static long toLong(int value) {
    return value & INT_MASK;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the {@code int} value that, when treated as unsigned, is equal to {@code value}, if
   * possible.
   *