the *best* way to address the real use case, or whether or not a different approach might be
        more appropriate.


        It's okay if you can't provide complete context on a use case. We understand if you are not
        able to discuss the full details of what you're working on.


        But Guava aims to provide functionality that is useful across boundaries of projects,

 * or method references instead of classes, leaving your code easier to migrate in the future.
 *
 * <p>To use a reference of this type (say, named {@code guavaPredicate}) in a context where {@code
 * java.util.function.Predicate} is expected, use the method reference {@code
 * guavaPredicate::apply}. For the other direction, use {@code javaUtilPredicate::test}. A future

   * constructed multimap.
   *
   * <p>This method will soon be deprecated in favor of {@code
   * MultimapBuilder.hashKeys().hashSetValues().build(multimap)}.
   *
   * @param multimap the multimap whose contents are copied to this multimap
   */
  public static <K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object> HashMultimap<K, V> create(
      Multimap<? extends K, ? extends V> multimap) {
    return new HashMultimap<>(multimap);

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.function.IntConsumer;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import junit.framework.TestCase;

/** Test Java8 map.compute in concurrent cache context. */
public class LocalCacheMapComputeTest extends TestCase {
  final int count = 10000;
  final String delimiter = "-";
  final String key = "key";
  Cache<String, String> cache;

  // helper

   * objects, and the array itself, can be null. That is for programmer convenience, when the
   * objects come from factory methods that are themselves {@code @Nullable}. In reality neither the
   * array nor its contents can be null, but it is not useful to force the use of {@code
   * requireNonNull} or the like just to assert that.
   *
   * <p>{@code EqualsTester} will always check that every object it is given returns false from

        for (Element element : keys) {
          builder.put(element, element);
        }
        return builder.build();
      }
    };

    abstract Map<Element, Element> create(Collection<Element> contents);
  }

  @Param({"5", "50", "500", "5000", "50000"})
  private int size;

  // TODO: look at exact (==) hits vs. equals() hits?
  @Param("0.9")
  private double hitRate;

  @Param("true")

   *
   * <p>This method will soon be deprecated in favor of {@code
   * MultimapBuilder.hashKeys().arrayListValues().build(multimap)}.
   *
   * @param multimap the multimap whose contents are copied to this multimap
   */
  public static <K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>
      ArrayListMultimap<K, V> create(Multimap<? extends K, ? extends V> multimap) {

  }

  /**
   * Constructs a {@code TreeMultimap}, ordered by the natural ordering of its keys and values, with
   * the same mappings as the specified multimap.
   *
   * @param multimap the multimap whose contents are copied to this multimap
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
  public static <K extends Comparable, V extends Comparable> TreeMultimap<K, V> create(

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collector;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * A {@link RangeSet} whose contents will never change, with many other important properties
 * detailed at {@link ImmutableCollection}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 14.0
 */

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collector;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * A {@link RangeSet} whose contents will never change, with many other important properties
 * detailed at {@link ImmutableCollection}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 14.0
 */