public E higher(E e) {
      synchronized (mutex) {
        return delegate().higher(e);
      }
    }

    @Override
    @CheckForNull
    public E lower(E e) {
      synchronized (mutex) {
        return delegate().lower(e);
      }
    }

    @Override
    @CheckForNull
    public E pollFirst() {
      synchronized (mutex) {
        return delegate().pollFirst();

   * is merely copied. Only as the power set is iterated are the individual subsets created, and
   * these subsets themselves occupy only a small constant amount of memory.
   *
   * @param set the set of elements to construct a power set from
   * @return the power set, as an immutable set of immutable sets

  /**
   * The maximum capacity, used if a higher value is implicitly specified by either of the
   * constructors with arguments. MUST be a power of two no greater than {@code 1<<30} to ensure
   * that entries are indexable using ints.
   */
  static final int MAXIMUM_CAPACITY = Ints.MAX_POWER_OF_TWO;

  /** The maximum number of segments to allow; used to bound constructor arguments. */