* java.util.Arrays#equals(byte[], byte[])}.
   *
   * @since 2.0
   */
  public static Comparator<byte[]> lexicographicalComparator() {
    return LexicographicalComparatorHolder.BEST_COMPARATOR;
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  static Comparator<byte[]> lexicographicalComparatorJavaImpl() {
    return LexicographicalComparatorHolder.PureJavaComparator.INSTANCE;
  }

  /**

   * interned, and so does not prevent these instances from being garbage-collected. This most
   * likely does not perform as well as {@link #newStrongInterner}, but is the best alternative when
   * the memory usage of that implementation is unacceptable.
   */
  @GwtIncompatible("java.lang.ref.WeakReference")
  public static <E> Interner<E> newWeakInterner() {

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         * layer of fallback before consulting the system property, we could try
         * com.sun.security.auth.module.NTSystem.
         *
         * But for now, we use the value from the system property as our best guess.
         */
        return fromSystemProperty;
      } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
        throwIfUnchecked(e.getCause()); // in case it's an Error or something

import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap;

/**
 * Helper classes for various benchmarks.
 *
 * @author Christopher Swenson
 */
final class BenchmarkHelpers {
  /** So far, this is the best way to test various implementations of {@link Set} subclasses. */
  public interface CollectionsImplEnum {
    <E extends Comparable<E>> Collection<E> create(Collection<E> contents);

    String name();
  }

import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap;

/**
 * Helper classes for various benchmarks.
 *
 * @author Christopher Swenson
 */
final class BenchmarkHelpers {
  /** So far, this is the best way to test various implementations of {@link Set} subclasses. */
  public interface CollectionsImplEnum {
    <E extends Comparable<E>> Collection<E> create(Collection<E> contents);

    String name();
  }

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 *       space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html</a>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @author Erik Kline
 * @since 5.0
 */
@J2ktIncompatible
@GwtIncompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

      first = false;
      if (o == collection) {
        sb.append("(this Collection)");
      } else {
        sb.append(o);
      }
    }
    return sb.append(']').toString();
  }

  /** Returns best-effort-sized StringBuilder based on the given collection size. */
  static StringBuilder newStringBuilderForCollection(int size) {
    checkNonnegative(size, "size");

   * structure (to make it possible to throw ConcurrentModificationException in the iterator). Note
   * that we choose not to make this volatile, so we do less of a "best effort" to track such
   * errors, for better performance.
   */
  private transient int metadata;

  /** The number of elements contained in the set. */
  private transient int size;

   * speaking, impossible to make any hard guarantees in the presence of unsynchronized concurrent
   * modification. Fail-fast iterators throw {@code ConcurrentModificationException} on a
   * best-effort basis. Therefore, it would be wrong to write a program that depended on this
   * exception for its correctness: <i>the fail-fast behavior of iterators should be used only to
   * detect bugs.</i>
   *