* typically by writing {@code (Function<Object, String> & Serializable) Object::toString}.
   *
   * <p>For more important information about the transition from Guava's {@link Function} class to
   * the JDK {@link java.util.function.Function} class, see {@link Function}.
   */
  public static Function<Object, String> toStringFunction() {
    return ToStringFunction.INSTANCE;
  }

  // enum singleton pattern

 *
 * <p>An instance of this class is serializable if its reference is absent or is a serializable
 * object.
 *
 * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional} (JDK 8 and higher):</b> A new {@code Optional}
 * class was added for Java 8. The two classes are extremely similar, but incompatible (they cannot
 * share a common supertype). <i>All</i> known differences are listed either here or with the

 *
 * <p>An instance of this class is serializable if its reference is absent or is a serializable
 * object.
 *
 * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional} (JDK 8 and higher):</b> A new {@code Optional}
 * class was added for Java 8. The two classes are extremely similar, but incompatible (they cannot
 * share a common supertype). <i>All</i> known differences are listed either here or with the

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  private static final byte[] ARRAY234 = {(byte) 2, (byte) 3, (byte) 4};

  private static final byte[] VALUES = {Byte.MIN_VALUE, -1, 0, 1, Byte.MAX_VALUE};

  // We need to test that our method behaves like the JDK method.
  @SuppressWarnings("InlineMeInliner")
  public void testHashCode() {
    for (byte value : VALUES) {
      assertThat(Bytes.hashCode(value)).isEqualTo(Byte.hashCode(value));
    }
  }

 * finalization to happen. However, a call to {@code System.gc()} is specified to be no more than a
 * hint, so this technique may fail at the whim of the JDK implementation, for example if a user
 * specified the JVM flag {@code -XX:+DisableExplicitGC}. But in practice, it works very well for
 * ordinary tests.
 *

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   * elements will appear in the returned list in the same order they appeared in {@code elements}.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> According to our
   * benchmarking
   * on Open JDK 7, {@link #immutableSortedCopy} generally performs better (in both time and space)
   * than this method, and this method in turn generally performs better than copying the list and
   * calling {@link Collections#sort(List)}.
   */

  private static final byte[] ARRAY234 = {(byte) 2, (byte) 3, (byte) 4};

  private static final byte[] VALUES = {Byte.MIN_VALUE, -1, 0, 1, Byte.MAX_VALUE};

  // We need to test that our method behaves like the JDK method.
  @SuppressWarnings("InlineMeInliner")
  public void testHashCode() {
    for (byte value : VALUES) {
      assertThat(Bytes.hashCode(value)).isEqualTo(Byte.hashCode(value));
    }
  }