* throw an exception in response to any of {@code elements} being null or of the wrong type.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method does not take into account the occurrence count of an element in
   * the two collections; it may still return {@code true} even if {@code elements} contains several

     * However, serialization does not preserve that property, though it does maintain the key and
     * value ordering.
     *
     * @since 8.0
     */
    // TODO: Make serialization behavior consistent.
    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    @Override
    public Builder<K, V> orderValuesBy(Comparator<? super V> valueComparator) {
      super.orderValuesBy(valueComparator);
      return this;

   * user-created objects that aren't accessible via this multimap's methods. This is generally used
   * to determine whether {@code copyOf} implementations should make an explicit copy to avoid
   * memory leaks.
   */
  boolean isPartialView() {
    return map.isPartialView();
  }

  // accessors

  @Override

            boolean isBlankVersion = descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion() == null
                    || descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion().trim().isEmpty();

            if (isBlankVersion) {
                // only take value from underlying POM if plugin descriptor has no explicit Maven requirement
                descriptor.setRequiredMavenVersion(artifact.getProperty("requiredMavenVersion", null));
            }

   * user-created objects that aren't accessible via this multimap's methods. This is generally used
   * to determine whether {@code copyOf} implementations should make an explicit copy to avoid
   * memory leaks.
   */
  boolean isPartialView() {
    return map.isPartialView();
  }

  // accessors

  @Override

   */
  @VisibleForTesting
  static int lessThanBranchFree(int x, int y) {
    // The double negation is optimized away by normal Java, but is necessary for GWT
    // to make sure bit twiddling works as expected.
    return ~~(x - y) >>> (Integer.SIZE - 1);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the base-2 logarithm of {@code x}, rounded according to the specified rounding mode.
   *

  private final ListMultimap<Class<?>, Object> distinctValues = ArrayListMultimap.create();
  private final NullPointerTester nullPointerTester = new NullPointerTester();

  public ClassSanityTester() {
    // TODO(benyu): bake these into ArbitraryInstances.
    setDefault(byte.class, (byte) 1);
    setDefault(Byte.class, (byte) 1);
    setDefault(short.class, (short) 1);
    setDefault(Short.class, (short) 1);
    setDefault(int.class, 1);

     * look at table entries if it is 0.
     *
     * - All (synchronized) write operations should write to the "count" field after structurally
     * changing any bin. The operations must not take any action that could even momentarily
     * cause a concurrent read operation to see inconsistent data. This is made easier by the
     * nature of the read operations in Map. For example, no operation can reveal that the table

   * other, pass it first. Unfortunately, since this method sets the generic type of the returned
   * set based on the type of the first set passed, this could in rare cases force you to make a
   * cast, for example:
   *
   * <pre>{@code
   * Set<Object> aFewBadObjects = ...
   * Set<String> manyBadStrings = ...
   *
   * // impossible for a non-String to be in the intersection

      list.add(i);
    }

    Ordering<Object> arbitrary =
        new ArbitraryOrdering() {
          @Override
          int identityHashCode(Object object) {
            return ((Integer) object) % 5; // fake tons of collisions!
          }
        };

    // Don't let the elements be in such a predictable order
    list = shuffledCopy(list, new Random(1));

    Collections.sort(list, arbitrary);