this.safeMinChar = (char) safeMin;
      this.safeMaxChar = (char) Math.min(safeMax, Character.MIN_HIGH_SURROGATE - 1);
    }
  }

  /*
   * This is overridden to improve performance. Rough benchmarking shows that this almost doubles
   * the speed when processing strings that do not require any escaping.
   */
  @Override
  public final String escape(String s) {

    }
    boolean[] octets = new boolean[maxChar + 1];
    for (char c : safeCharArray) {
      octets[c] = true;
    }
    return octets;
  }

  /*
   * Overridden for performance. For unescaped strings this improved the performance of the uri
   * escaper from ~760ns to ~400ns as measured by {@link CharEscapersBenchmark}.
   */
  @Override
  protected int nextEscapeIndex(CharSequence csq, int index, int end) {

 * {@link Multiset#entrySet()}, as do many methods acting on the set returned by {@link
 * #elementSet()}. Override those methods for better performance.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
abstract class AbstractSortedMultiset<E extends @Nullable Object> extends AbstractMultiset<E>

 *   <li>equalsImpl: which implementation of array equality to use
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p><b>Important note:</b> the primary goal of this benchmark is to ensure that varying {@code
 * whereToDiffer} produces no observable change in performance. We want to make sure that the array
 * equals implementation is *not* short-circuiting to prevent timing-based attacks. Being fast is
 * only a secondary goal.
 *
 * @author Kurt Alfred Kluever
 */

 *   <li>equalsImpl: which implementation of array equality to use
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p><b>Important note:</b> the primary goal of this benchmark is to ensure that varying {@code
 * whereToDiffer} produces no observable change in performance. We want to make sure that the array
 * equals implementation is *not* short-circuiting to prevent timing-based attacks. Being fast is
 * only a secondary goal.
 *
 * @author Kurt Alfred Kluever
 */

    long result = 0;
    // Due to the way we shift, we can stop iterating once we've run out of data, the rest
    // of the result already being filled with zeros.

    // This loop is critical to performance, so please check HashBenchmark if altering it.
    int limit = Math.min(length, 8);
    for (int i = 0; i < limit; i++) {
      // Shift value left while iterating logically through the array.

import static java.lang.Character.MAX_SURROGATE;
import static java.lang.Character.MIN_SURROGATE;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;

/**
 * Low-level, high-performance utility methods related to the {@linkplain Charsets#UTF_8 UTF-8}
 * character encoding. UTF-8 is defined in section D92 of <a
 * href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch03.pdf">The Unicode Standard Core

    } catch (ClassCastException e) {
      return false;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public boolean containsAll(Collection<?> targets) {
    // TODO(jlevy): For optimal performance, use a binary search when
    // targets.size() < size() / log(size())
    // TODO(kevinb): see if we can share code with OrderedIterator after it
    // graduates from labs.
    if (targets instanceof Multiset) {

 * or even removal, in a future release. An API bearing this annotation is exempt from any
 * compatibility guarantees made by its containing library. Note that the presence of this
 * annotation implies nothing about the quality or performance of the API in question, only the fact
 * that it is not "API-frozen."
 *
 * <p>It is generally safe for <i>applications</i> to depend on beta APIs, at the cost of some extra

/**
 * Provides similar behavior to {@link String#intern} for any immutable type. Common implementations
 * are available from the {@link Interners} class.
 *
 * <p>Note that {@code String.intern()} has some well-known performance limitations, and should
 * generally be avoided. Prefer {@link Interners#newWeakInterner} or another {@code Interner}
 * implementation even for {@code String} interning.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 3.0