numberRemoved = oldCount;
      backingMap.remove(element);
    }

    frequency.add(-numberRemoved);
    size -= numberRemoved;
    return oldCount;
  }

  // Roughly a 33% performance improvement over AbstractMultiset.setCount().
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @Override
  public int setCount(@ParametricNullness E element, int count) {
    checkNonnegative(count, "count");

    Count existingCounter;