return new MergingIterator<>(iterators, comparator);
  }

  /**
   * An iterator that performs a lazy N-way merge, calculating the next value each time the iterator
   * is polled. This amortizes the sorting cost over the iteration and requires less memory than
   * sorting all elements at once.
   *
   * <p>Retrieving a single element takes approximately O(log(M)) time, where M is the number of

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case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself.  (Alice had
been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general
conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find
a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in
the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and
behind them a railway station.)  However, she soon made out that

- DRA: CEL expressions using attribute strings exceeded the cost limit because their cost estimation was incomplete. ([#129661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129661), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node]

- Added `SizeBasedListCostEstimate` feature gate that allowed apiserver to estimate sizes of objects to calculate cost of LIST requests. ([#132355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132355), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

   * are guarded by a lock and operations are applied in batches to avoid lock contention. The
   * penalty of applying the batches is spread across threads so that the amortized cost is slightly
   * higher than performing just the operation without enforcing the capacity constraint.
   *
   * This implementation uses a per-segment queue to record a memento of the additions, removals,

"nichts", "noch", "nun", "nur", "ob", "oder", "ohne", "sehr", "sein", "seine", "seinem", "seinen", "seiner", "seines", "selbst", "sich", "sie", "ihnen", "sind", "so", "solche", "solchem", "solchen", "solcher", "solches", "soll", "sollte", "sondern", "sonst", "über", "um", "und", "uns", "unse", "unsem", "unsen", "unser", "unses", "unter", "viel", "vom", "von", "vor", "während", "war", "waren", "warst", "was", "weg", "weil", "weiter", "welche", "welchem", "welchen", "welcher", "welches", "wenn", "werde",...

"nichts", "noch", "nun", "nur", "ob", "oder", "ohne", "sehr", "sein", "seine", "seinem", "seinen", "seiner", "seines", "selbst", "sich", "sie", "ihnen", "sind", "so", "solche", "solchem", "solchen", "solcher", "solches", "soll", "sollte", "sondern", "sonst", "über", "um", "und", "uns", "unse", "unsem", "unsen", "unser", "unses", "unter", "viel", "vom", "von", "vor", "während", "war", "waren", "warst", "was", "weg", "weil", "weiter", "welche", "welchem", "welchen", "welcher", "welches", "wenn", "werde",...

- Added CEL runtime cost calculation into CustomerResource validation. CustomerResource validation will fail if runtime cost exceeds the budget. ([#108482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108482), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37))

## Changelog since v1.26.8

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug where CEL expressions in CRD validation rules would incorrectly compute a high estimated cost for functions that return strings, lists or maps.