* all cases, this implementation uses {@link Comparable#compareTo} or {@link Comparator#compare}
 * instead of {@link Object#equals} to determine equivalence of instances.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The comparison must be <i>consistent with equals</i> as explained by the
 * {@link Comparable} class specification. Otherwise, the resulting multiset will violate the {@link

   *   <li>{@linkplain LoadingCache#getAll bulk loading requests}, including {@linkplain
   *       CacheLoader#loadAll bulk loading implementations}
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> For any given key, every {@code loader} used with it should compute the same
   * value. Otherwise, a call that passes one {@code loader} may return the result of another call

   * intern(a)} is permitted to return one instance now and a different instance later if the
   * original interned instance was garbage-collected.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> do not use with mutable objects.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code sample} is null
   */
  E intern(E sample);

 * one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing iterator as desired per the <a
 * href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>{@code default} method warning:</b> This class forwards calls to <i>only some</i> {@code
 * default} methods. Specifically, it forwards calls only for methods that existed <a

  public static void flush(Flushable flushable, boolean swallowIOException) throws IOException {
    try {
      flushable.flush();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      if (swallowIOException) {
        logger.log(Level.WARNING, "IOException thrown while flushing Flushable.", e);
      } else {
        throw e;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Equivalent to calling {@code flush(flushable, true)}, but with no {@code IOException} in the

  }

  /**
   * Creates a TimeLimiter instance using the given executor service to execute method calls.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> using a bounded executor may be counterproductive! If the thread pool fills
   * up, any time callers spend waiting for a thread may count toward their time limit, and in this
   * case the call may even time out before the target method is ever invoked.
   *

 * as desired per the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator
 * pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>{@code default} method warning:</b> This class does <i>not</i> forward calls to {@code
 * default} methods. Instead, it inherits their default implementations. When those implementations
 * invoke methods, they invoke methods on the {@code ForwardingBlockingQueue}.

 * should override one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing multiset as desired per
 * the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingSortedMultiset} forward
 * <b>indiscriminately</b> to the methods of the delegate. For example, overriding {@link

   * time and space.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code sequence} contains ill-formed UTF-16 (unpaired
   *     surrogates)
   */
  public static int encodedLength(CharSequence sequence) {
    // Warning to maintainers: this implementation is highly optimized.
    int utf16Length = sequence.length();
    int utf8Length = utf16Length;
    int i = 0;

    // This loop optimizes for pure ASCII.

 * methods to modify the behavior of the backing set as desired per the <a
 * href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingSet} forward <b>indiscriminately</b> to the
 * methods of the delegate. For example, overriding {@link #add} alone <b>will not</b> change the