* to reduce cache contention on most processors. Padding is
   * overkill for most Atomics because they are usually irregularly
   * scattered in memory and thus don't interfere much with each
   * other. But Atomic objects residing in arrays will tend to be
   * placed adjacent to each other, and so will most often share
   * cache lines (with a huge negative performance impact) without
   * this precaution.

      super.begin();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Because Thread.interrupt() can invoke arbitrary code, it can be slow (e.g. perform IO). To
   * protect ourselves from that we want to make sure that tasks don't spin too much waiting for the
   * interrupting thread to complete the protocol.
   */
  /*
   * This test hangs (or maybe is just *very* slow) under Android.
   *

   * <p>It should be noted that using a {@code Striped<L>} with relatively few stripes, and {@code
   * bulkGet(keys)} with a relative large number of keys can cause an excessive number of shared
   * stripes (much like the birthday paradox, where much fewer than anticipated birthdays are needed
   * for a pair of them to match). Please consider carefully the implications of the number of

   * and use that list instead.
   */
  public List<Long> asList() {
    /*
     * Typically we cache this kind of thing, but much repeated use of this view is a performance
     * anti-pattern anyway. If we cache, then everyone pays a price in memory footprint even if
     * they never use this method.
     */
    return new AsList(this);
  }

 * order to {@code [key2, key1]}. The {@link #entries()} iterator returns mutable map entries, and
 * {@link #replaceValues} attempts to preserve iteration order as much as possible.
 *
 * <p>The collections returned by {@link #keySet()} and {@link #asMap} iterate through the keys in
 * the order they were first added to the multimap. Similarly, {@link #get}, {@link #removeAll}, and

  <url>https://github.com/google/guava</url>
  <description>
    Guava is a suite of core and expanded libraries that include
    utility classes, Google's collections, I/O classes, and
    much more.
  </description>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>failureaccess</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>

 *
 * <p>The time taken to compute multiple quantiles on the same dataset using {@link Scale#indexes
 * indexes} is generally less than the total time taken to compute each of them separately, and
 * sometimes much less. For example, on a large enough dataset, computing the 90th and 99th
 * percentiles together takes about 55% as long as computing them separately.
 *

 * entries may be counted by {@link Map#size}, but will never be visible to read or write
 * operations. A partially-reclaimed entry is never exposed to the user. Any {@link Map.Entry}
 * instance retrieved from the map's {@linkplain Map#entrySet entry set} is a snapshot of that
 * entry's state at the time of retrieval; such entries do, however, support {@link

       * finalizable references could be enqueued subsequently (at which point the class loader
       * would be resurrected by virtue of us having a strong reference to it), we should pretty
       * much just shut down and make sure we don't keep it alive any longer than necessary.
       */
      return null;
    }
    try {
      return finalizableReferenceClass.getMethod("finalizeReferent");

 * which approach to use, <b>don't worry</b> too much about it; just pick something that seems
 * reasonable and it will be fine.
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>If checking whether the <i>caller</i> has violated your method or constructor's contract
 *       (such as by passing an invalid argument), use the utilities of the {@link Preconditions}
 *       class instead.