*
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> this interface can only be used to measure elapsed time, not wall time.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 10.0 (<a href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/Compatibility">mostly
 *     source-compatible</a> since 9.0)
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public abstract class Ticker {
  /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */
  protected Ticker() {}

   * possible with an unsafe cast which requires {@code keys} to actually be of type {@code K}.
   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  /*
   * <? extends Object> is mostly the same as <?> to plain Java. But to nullness checkers, they
   * differ: <? extends Object> means "non-null types," while <?> means "all types."
   */
  @Override

   * returns a {@link SortedMap}, instead of the {@link Map} specified in the {@link Table}
   * interface.
   *
   * @since 10.0 (<a href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/Compatibility" >mostly
   *     source-compatible</a> since 7.0)
   */
  @Override
  public SortedMap<C, V> row(R rowKey) {
    return new TreeRow(rowKey);
  }

  private class TreeRow extends Row implements SortedMap<C, V> {

like.'

  `I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully.  `They have their
tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'

  `You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle:
`crumbs would all wash off in the sea.  But they HAVE their tails
in their mouths; and the reason is--' here the Mock Turtle
yawned and shut his eyes.--`Tell her about the reason and all
that,' he said to the Gryphon.

   * true when the iterable has fewer than two elements.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> Use the equivalent {@link Comparators#isInOrder(Iterable, Comparator)}
   * instead, since the rest of {@code Ordering} is mostly obsolete (as explained in the class
   * documentation).
   */
  public boolean isOrdered(Iterable<? extends T> iterable) {
    Iterator<? extends T> it = iterable.iterator();
    if (it.hasNext()) {

  private static boolean isTryEnter(Method method) {
    return method.getName().startsWith("tryEnter");
  }

  /**
   * Identifies just enterIfXxx methods (a subset of {@link #isAnyEnter}), which are mostly like the
   * enterXxx methods but behave like tryEnterXxx in some scenarios.
   */
  private static boolean isEnterIf(Method method) {
    return method.getName().startsWith("enterIf");
  }

        return Ints.saturatedCast(edgeCount());
      }

      @Override
      public boolean remove(@CheckForNull Object o) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
      }

      // Mostly safe: We check contains(u) before calling successors(u), so we perform unsafe
      // operations only in weird cases like checking for an EndpointPair<ArrayList> in a
      // Graph<LinkedList>.
      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

    }
  }

  /**
   * This verifies that putUnencodedChars(String) and hashUnencodedChars(String) are equivalent,
   * even for funny strings composed by (possibly unmatched, and mostly illegal) surrogate
   * characters. (But doesn't test that they do the right thing - just their consistency).
   */
  private static void assertHashStringWithSurrogatesEquivalence(

   * Ascii.truncate("foobar", 5, "..."); // returns "fo..."
   * }</pre>
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> This method <i>may</i> work with certain non-ASCII text but is not safe for use
   * with arbitrary Unicode text. It is mostly intended for use with text that is known to be safe
   * for use with it (such as all-ASCII text) and for simple debugging text. When using this method,
   * consider the following:
   *
   * <ul>

 * of the code may not be readable by older versions of the code (e.g., a serialized Bloom filter
 * generated today may <i>not</i> be readable by a binary that was compiled 6 months ago).
 *
 * <p>As of Guava 23.0, this class is thread-safe and lock-free. It internally uses atomics and
 * compare-and-swap to ensure correctness when multiple threads are used to access it.
 *