links = null;
    return result;
  }

  /*
   * For discussion of the safety of the following methods for operating on predecessors and
   * successors, see the comments near the end of CompactHashMap, noting that the methods here call
   * link(), which is defined at the end of this file.
   */

  private int getPredecessor(int entry) {
    return ((int) (link(entry) >>> 32)) - 1;
  }

    assertFalse(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase("x", ""));
    assertTrue(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase(LOWER, UPPER));
    assertTrue(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase(UPPER, LOWER));
    // Create new strings here to avoid early-out logic.
    assertTrue(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase(new String(IGNORED), new String(IGNORED)));
    // Compare to: "\u00c1".equalsIgnoreCase("\u00e1") == true
    assertFalse(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase("\u00c1", "\u00e1"));

    this.predecessor = null;
    this.successor = null;
    return result;
  }

  /*
   * For discussion of the safety of the following methods for operating on predecessors and
   * successors, see the comments near the end of CompactHashMap, noting that the methods here call
   * requirePredecessors() and requireSuccessors(), which are defined at the end of this file.
   */

  private int getPredecessor(int entry) {

           * technique previously used by BigIntegerMath: maintain separate numerator and
           * denominator accumulators, multiplying the fraction into result when near overflow.
           */
          for (int i = 2; i <= k; i++, n--) {
            if (numeratorBits + nBits < Long.SIZE - 1) {
              // It's definitely safe to multiply into numerator and denominator.

  /*
   * This class maintains a lazily-initialized table of atomically
   * updated variables, plus an extra "base" field. The table size
   * is a power of two. Indexing uses masked per-thread hash codes.
   * Nearly all declarations in this class are package-private,
   * accessed directly by subclasses.
   *
   * Table entries are of class Cell; a variant of AtomicLong padded
   * to reduce cache contention on most processors. Padding is

   * key, the choice of {@link KeyAbsentBehavior} decides which index is returned.
   *
   * <p>This method runs in log(n) time on random-access lists, which offer near-constant-time
   * access to each list element.
   *
   * @param list the list to be searched.
   * @param key the value to be searched for.
   * @param comparator the comparator by which the list is ordered.

 * `Function<@Nullable A, @Nullable B>` already had to find a workaround. Still, there is a *ton* of
 * fallout from trying to switch. I would be shocked if the switch would offer benefits to anywhere
 * near enough users to justify the costs.
 *
 * Fortunately, if anyone does want to use a Converter as a `Function<@Nullable A, @Nullable B>`,
 * it's easy to get one: `converter::convert`.
 *

   * used to bail after 20ms during the expected-successful tests, and there we saw a failure rate
   * of ~1/5000, meaning that the other thread's get() call nearly always completes within 20ms if
   * it's going to complete at all).
   *
   * <p>[*] To avoid hangs, I've disabled the in-thread calls. This makes the test take (very

  /*
   * This class maintains a lazily-initialized table of atomically
   * updated variables, plus an extra "base" field. The table size
   * is a power of two. Indexing uses masked per-thread hash codes.
   * Nearly all declarations in this class are package-private,
   * accessed directly by subclasses.
   *
   * Table entries are of class Cell; a variant of AtomicLong padded
   * to reduce cache contention on most processors. Padding is

import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * Implementation of {@code Futures#withTimeout}.
 *
 * <p>Future that delegates to another but will finish early (via a {@link TimeoutException} wrapped
 * in an {@link ExecutionException}) if the specified duration expires. The delegate future is
 * interrupted and cancelled if it times out.
 */
@J2ktIncompatible
@GwtIncompatible