*       is strongly recommended.
 *   <li>Streams are standard Java, not requiring a third-party dependency (but do render your code
 *       incompatible with Java 7 and earlier).
 * </ul>
 *
 * <h3>Example</h3>
 *
 * <p>Here is an example that accepts a list from a database call, filters it based on a predicate,

  }

  /**
   * Returns a stream of this fluent iterable's contents (similar to calling {@link
   * Collection#stream} on a collection).
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> the earlier in the chain you can switch to {@code Stream} usage (ideally not
   * going through {@code FluentIterable} at all), the more performant and idiomatic your code will

    }
    final CyclicBarrier barrier =
        new CyclicBarrier(
            6 // for the setter threads
                + 50 // for the listeners
                + 50 // for the blocking get threads,
                + 1); // for the main thread
    final ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(barrier.getParties());

   *
   * <p>When the underlying delegate throws an exception then this memoizing supplier will keep
   * delegating calls until it returns valid data.
   *
   * <p>If {@code delegate} is an instance created by an earlier call to {@code memoize}, it is
   * returned directly.
   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Supplier<T> memoize(Supplier<T> delegate) {
    if (delegate instanceof NonSerializableMemoizingSupplier

   * IllegalArgumentException} if passed a {@code fromElement} smaller than an earlier {@code
   * fromElement}. However, this method doesn't throw an exception in that situation, but instead
   * keeps the original {@code fromElement}. Similarly, this method keeps the original {@code
   * toElement}, instead of throwing an exception, if passed a {@code toElement} greater than an
   * earlier {@code toElement}.
   */
  @Override

     * checkers are unlikely to ever look at the annotations on this declaration.
     *
     * Historical note: At one point, we'd declared this method as accepting and returning nullable
     * values. For details on that, see earlier revisions of this file.
     */
    return convert(a);
  }

  /**
   * Indicates whether another object is equal to this converter.
   *

  }

  /**
   * Extra checks that get done for all test cases.
   *
   * <p>Triggers test case failure if any thread assertions have failed, by rethrowing, in the test
   * harness thread, any exception recorded earlier by threadRecordFailure.
   *
   * <p>Triggers test case failure if interrupt status is set in the main thread.
   */
  @Override
  public void tearDown() throws Exception {