}
    final ReentrantLock lock = this.lock;
    lock.lock();

    boolean satisfied = false;
    try {
      return satisfied = guard.isSatisfied();
    } finally {
      if (!satisfied) {
        lock.unlock();
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Enters this monitor if the guard is satisfied. Blocks at most the given time acquiring the
   * lock, but does not wait for the guard to be satisfied.

 * strategies.
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>SafeAtomicHelper: uses Atomic FieldsUpdaters to implement synchronization
 *   <li>SynchronizedHelper: uses {@code synchronized} blocks for synchronization
 * </ul>
 *
 * To force selection of our fallback strategies we load {@link AggregateFutureState} (and all of
 * {@code com.google.common.util.concurrent}) in degenerate class loaders which make certain

    // ThreadLocal is not available to GWT, so we always reuse the same
    // instance.  It is always safe to return the same instance because
    // javascript is single-threaded, and only used by blocks that doesn't
    // involve async callbacks.
    return CHAR_BUFFER;
  }

  private Platform() {}

import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * A rate limiter. Conceptually, a rate limiter distributes permits at a configurable rate. Each
 * {@link #acquire()} blocks if necessary until a permit is available, and then takes it. Once
 * acquired, permits need not be released.
 *
 * <p>{@code RateLimiter} is safe for concurrent use: It will restrict the total rate of calls from

  protected abstract <V> ListenableFuture<V> createListenableFuture(
      V value, @Nullable Exception except, CountDownLatch waitOn);

  /** Tests that the {@link Future#get()} method blocks until a value is available. */
  public void testGetBlocksUntilValueAvailable() throws Throwable {

    assertFalse(future.isDone());
    assertFalse(future.isCancelled());

    Object key = new Object();
    assertNotNull(cache.getUnchecked(key));

    CacheTesting.simulateValueReclamation(cache, key);

    // this blocks if computation can't deal with partially-collected values
    assertNotNull(cache.getUnchecked(key));
    assertEquals(1, cache.size());
    assertEquals(2, countingLoader.getCount());

      /*
       * Using weak references here could let us release exceptions earlier, but:
       *
       * 1. On Android, querying a WeakReference blocks if the GC is doing an otherwise-concurrent
       * pass.
       *
       * 2. We would probably choose to compare exceptions using == instead of equals() (for

    //     in all.
    // (3) "Successive". We can consider that we are exchanging a block of size d (a[0..d-1]) with a
    //     block of size n-d (a[d..n-1]), where in general these blocks have different sizes. If we
    //     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

      }

      /**
       * Blocks until the task is complete or the timeout expires. Throws a {@link TimeoutException}
       * if the timer expires, otherwise behaves like {@link #get()}.
       */
      V get(long nanos)
          throws TimeoutException, CancellationException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException {

        // Attempt to acquire the shared lock with a timeout.

      }

      /**
       * Blocks until the task is complete or the timeout expires. Throws a {@link TimeoutException}
       * if the timer expires, otherwise behaves like {@link #get()}.
       */
      V get(long nanos)
          throws TimeoutException, CancellationException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException {

        // Attempt to acquire the shared lock with a timeout.