*
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> If passing a single element {@code e}, the {@code Stream} equivalent
   * of this method is {@code Stream.generate(() -> e)}. Otherwise, put the elements in a collection
   * and use {@code Stream.generate(() -> collection).flatMap(Collection::stream)}.
   */
  @SafeVarargs
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterable<T> cycle(T... elements) {

   */
  @GwtIncompatible // java.io.ObjectOutputStream
  private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
    stream.defaultWriteObject();
    stream.writeObject(keyTypeOrObjectUnderJ2cl);
    stream.writeObject(valueTypeOrObjectUnderJ2cl);
    Serialization.writeMap(this, stream);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // reading fields populated by writeObject

    assertThat(stats.count()).isEqualTo(MEGA_STREAM_COUNT);
    assertThat(stats.mean()).isWithin(ALLOWED_ERROR * MEGA_STREAM_COUNT).of(MEGA_STREAM_MEAN);
    assertThat(stats.populationVariance())
        .isWithin(ALLOWED_ERROR * MEGA_STREAM_COUNT)
        .of(MEGA_STREAM_POPULATION_VARIANCE);
    assertThat(stats.min()).isEqualTo(MEGA_STREAM_MIN);
    assertThat(stats.max()).isEqualTo(MEGA_STREAM_MAX);
  }

  private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
    stream.defaultWriteObject();
    stream.writeObject(keyTypeOrObjectUnderJ2cl);
    Serialization.writeMap(this, stream);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // reading field populated by writeObject
  @GwtIncompatible // java.io.ObjectInputStream
  private void readObject(ObjectInputStream stream) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {

    assertThat(accumulator.count()).isEqualTo(MEGA_STREAM_COUNT);
    assertThat(accumulator.mean()).isWithin(ALLOWED_ERROR * MEGA_STREAM_COUNT).of(MEGA_STREAM_MEAN);
    assertThat(accumulator.populationVariance())
        .isWithin(ALLOWED_ERROR * MEGA_STREAM_COUNT)
        .of(MEGA_STREAM_POPULATION_VARIANCE);
    assertThat(accumulator.min()).isEqualTo(MEGA_STREAM_MIN);
    assertThat(accumulator.max()).isEqualTo(MEGA_STREAM_MAX);

   */
  @GwtIncompatible // java.io.ObjectOutputStream
  @J2ktIncompatible
  private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
    stream.defaultWriteObject();
    stream.writeObject(valueComparator());
    Serialization.writeMultimap(this, stream);
  }

  @CheckForNull
  Comparator<? super V> valueComparator() {
    return emptySet instanceof ImmutableSortedSet

   * public void useStreamNicely() throws IOException {
   *   SomeStream stream = new SomeStream("foo");
   *   boolean threw = true;
   *   try {
   *     // ... code which does something with the stream ...
   *     threw = false;
   *   } finally {
   *     // If an exception occurs, rethrow it only if threw==false:
   *     Closeables.close(stream, threw);
   *   }
   * }
   * }</pre>
   *

  @J2ktIncompatible
  private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
    stream.defaultWriteObject();
    stream.writeInt(keySet().size());
    for (K key : keySet()) {
      stream.writeObject(key);
    }
    stream.writeInt(size());
    for (Entry<K, V> entry : entries()) {
      stream.writeObject(entry.getKey());
      stream.writeObject(entry.getValue());
    }
  }

   * Predicates.instanceOf(ArrayList.class)}, which is inconsistent with equals. (See {@link
   * Iterables#filter(Iterable, Class)} for related functionality.)
   *
   * <p><b>{@code Stream} equivalent:</b> {@link java.util.stream.Stream#filter Stream.filter}.
   */
  // TODO(kevinb): how can we omit that Iterables link when building gwt
  // javadoc?
  public static <E extends @Nullable Object> Collection<E> filter(

   */
  @GwtIncompatible // java.io.ObjectOutputStream
  @J2ktIncompatible
  private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
    stream.defaultWriteObject();
    stream.writeInt(size());
    for (Entry<K, V> entry : entries()) {
      stream.writeObject(entry.getKey());
      stream.writeObject(entry.getValue());
    }
  }

  @GwtIncompatible // java.io.ObjectInputStream
  @J2ktIncompatible