implements SortedMultiset<E> {
  private final Comparator<? super E> comparator;

  // needed for serialization
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  AbstractSortedMultiset() {
    this((Comparator) Ordering.natural());
  }

  AbstractSortedMultiset(Comparator<? super E> comparator) {
    this.comparator = checkNotNull(comparator);
  }

  @Override
  public SortedSet<E> elementSet() {

    @Override
    protected List<String> create(String[] elements) {
      Comparator<String> comparator = createExplicitComparator(elements);
      ImmutableSet<String> set = ImmutableSortedSet.copyOf(comparator, asList(elements));
      return set.asList();
    }
  }

      Comparator<T> comparator) {
    return new LexicographicalOrdering<S>(checkNotNull(comparator));
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if each element in {@code iterable} after the first is greater than or
   * equal to the element that preceded it, according to the specified comparator. Note that this is
   * always true when the iterable has fewer than two elements.
   */

  other: Array<String>?,
  comparator: Comparator<in String>,
): Boolean {
  if (isEmpty() || other == null || other.isEmpty()) {
    return false
  }
  for (a in this) {
    for (b in other) {
      if (comparator.compare(a, b) == 0) {
        return true
      }
    }
  }
  return false
}

internal fun Array<String>.indexOf(
  value: String,
  comparator: Comparator<String>,

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Tests for {@code Comparators}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
@NullMarked
public class ComparatorsTest extends TestCase {
  public void testLexicographical() {
    Comparator<String> comparator = Ordering.natural();
    Comparator<Iterable<String>> lexy = Comparators.lexicographical(comparator);

    ImmutableList<String> empty = ImmutableList.of();

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Random;
import org.jspecify.annotations.NullUnmarked;

/**
 * Microbenchmark for {@link UnsignedBytes}.
 *
 * @author Hiroshi Yamauchi
 */
@NullUnmarked
public class UnsignedBytesBenchmark {

  private byte[] ba1;
  private byte[] ba2;
  private byte[] ba3;
  private byte[] ba4;
  private Comparator<byte[]> javaImpl;

    private final Comparator<? super E> comparator;

    public Builder(Comparator<? super E> comparator) {
      this.comparator = checkNotNull(comparator);
    }

    Builder(Comparator<? super E> comparator, int expectedSize) {
      super(expectedSize);
      this.comparator = checkNotNull(comparator);
    }

    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    @Override
    public Builder<E> add(E element) {

   * should be identical to the one the user passed in. We touch only the
   * "secret" comparator used by the delegate implementation.
   */

  private static <K, V> SortedMap<K, V> newModifiableDelegate(Comparator<? super K> comparator) {
    return newTreeMap(nullAccepting(comparator));
  }

  private static <E> Comparator<@Nullable E> nullAccepting(Comparator<E> comparator) {

  private final Comparator<? super C> columnComparator;

  private static final class Factory<C, V> implements Supplier<Map<C, V>>, Serializable {
    final Comparator<? super C> comparator;

    Factory(Comparator<? super C> comparator) {
      this.comparator = comparator;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<C, V> get() {
      return new TreeMap<>(comparator);
    }

 * returned.
 *
 * <p>All default instances returned by {@link #get} are generics-safe. Clients won't get type
 * errors for using {@code get(Comparator.class)} as a {@code Comparator<Foo>}, for example.
 * Immutable empty instances are returned for collection types; {@code ""} for string; {@code 0} for