* purposes, the "count" field, tracking the number of elements, serves as that volatile
     * variable ensuring visibility. This is convenient because this field needs to be read in many
     * read operations anyway:
     *
     * - All (unsynchronized) read operations must first read the "count" field, and should not look
     * at table entries if it is 0.
     *

beginning to see its meaning.

  `And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued
the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, `and just as I was
thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come
wriggling down from the sky!  Ugh, Serpent!'

  `But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice.  `I'm a--I'm
a--'

  `Well!  WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon.  `I can see you're

   *       visible static factory method whose return type is {@code C} or {@code C}'s subtype.
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p>In all cases, if {@code C} needs custom logic for testing serialization, you can add an
   * explicit {@code testSerializable()} test in the corresponding {@code CTest} class, and {@code

  private void validate() {
    // Don't use checkState(), because we don't want the overhead of generating the error message
    // unless it's actually going to be used; validate() is called for all set method calls, so it
    // needs to be fast.
    // (We could instead generate the message once, when the set is created, but zero is better.)
    if (!validator.get()) {
      throw new IllegalStateException(errorMessage.get());
    }
  }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Class<E> result = classOrNull == null ? (Class<E>) (Class<?>) Object.class : classOrNull;
    return result;
  }

  /*
   * If I understand correctly:
   *
   * This needs to be a @JsMethod so that J2CL knows to look for a JavaScript implemention of
   * it in Platform.native.js. (The JavaScript implementation inline below is visible to *GWT*, but
   * *J2CL* doesn't look at it.)
   *

/**
 * This class provides a skeletal implementation of the {@code Cache} interface to minimize the
 * effort required to implement this interface.
 *
 * <p>To implement a cache, the programmer needs only to extend this class and provide an
 * implementation for the {@link #put} and {@link #getIfPresent} methods. {@link #getAllPresent} is

   * validate the well-formedness of their input.
   */
  public static Builder builder() {
    return new Builder();
  }

  /**
   * A builder for simple, fast escapers.
   *
   * <p>Typically an escaper needs to deal with the escaping of high valued characters or code
   * points. In these cases it is necessary to extend either {@link ArrayBasedCharEscaper} or {@link

    }

    private boolean mayNeedHiddenThis() {
      Class<?> declaringClass = constructor.getDeclaringClass();
      if (declaringClass.getEnclosingConstructor() != null) {
        // Enclosed in a constructor, needs hidden this
        return true;
      }
      Method enclosingMethod = declaringClass.getEnclosingMethod();
      if (enclosingMethod != null) {
        // Enclosed in a method, if it's not static, must need hidden this.

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static final Comparator<?> NATURAL_ORDER = Ordering.natural();

  // This reference is only used by GWT compiler to infer the keys and values
  // of the map that needs to be serialized.
  private @Nullable Comparator<? super K> unusedComparatorForSerialization;
  private @Nullable K unusedKeyForSerialization;
  private @Nullable V unusedValueForSerialization;

   * com.google.common.io.ByteStreams#newDataOutput()} to get a growable buffer.
   */
  public static byte[] toByteArray(long value) {
    // Note that this code needs to stay compatible with GWT, which has known
    // bugs when narrowing byte casts of long values occur.
    byte[] result = new byte[8];
    for (int i = 7; i >= 0; i--) {
      result[i] = (byte) (value & 0xffL);