type (
	sparseDatas []sparseEntry
	sparseHoles []sparseEntry
)

// validateSparseEntries reports whether sp is a valid sparse map.
// It does not matter whether sp represents data fragments or hole fragments.
func validateSparseEntries(sp []sparseEntry, size int64) bool {
	// Validate all sparse entries. These are the same checks as performed by
	// the BSD tar utility.

   * <p>Many of the filtered multiset's methods, such as {@code size()}, iterate across every
   * element in the underlying multiset and determine which elements satisfy the filter. When a live
   * view is <i>not</i> needed, it may be faster to copy the returned multiset and use the copy.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> {@code predicate} must be <i>consistent with equals</i>, as documented at
   * {@link Predicate#apply}. Do not provide a predicate such as {@code

   * <p>Many of the filtered multiset's methods, such as {@code size()}, iterate across every
   * element in the underlying multiset and determine which elements satisfy the filter. When a live
   * view is <i>not</i> needed, it may be faster to copy the returned multiset and use the copy.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> {@code predicate} must be <i>consistent with equals</i>, as documented at
   * {@link Predicate#apply}. Do not provide a predicate such as {@code

   * signatures as the methods below, rather than overriding the same doForward and doBackward
   * methods as implementations of normal converters do?
   *
   * But no matter what we do, it's worth remembering that the resulting code is going to be unsound
   * in the presence of LegacyConverter, at least in the case of users who view the converter as a

   * equal, ignoring the case of any ASCII alphabetic characters between {@code 'a'} and {@code 'z'}
   * or {@code 'A'} and {@code 'Z'} inclusive.
   *
   * <p>This method is significantly faster than {@link String#equalsIgnoreCase} and should be used
   * in preference if at least one of the parameters is known to contain only ASCII characters.
   *

// creating a new op every time. If `raw_device_name` is `NULL` or empty, it
// does not set the device name. If it's not `NULL`, then it attempts to parse
// and set the device name. It's effectively `TFE_OpSetDevice`, but it is faster
// than separately calling it because if the existing op has the same
// `raw_device_name`, it skips parsing and just leave as it is.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_OpReset(TFE_Op* op_to_reset,

And still, you would probably not want the application to stay dead because there was an error in one place, you probably want it to **continue running** at least for the *path operations* that are not broken.

### Restart After Crash { #restart-after-crash }

But in those cases with really bad errors that crash the running **process**, you would want an external component that is in charge of **restarting** the process, at least a couple of times...

/// tip

    int size = thisList.size();
    if (size != otherList.size()) {
      return false;
    }
    if (thisList instanceof RandomAccess && otherList instanceof RandomAccess) {
      // avoid allocation and use the faster loop
      for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (!Objects.equals(thisList.get(i), otherList.get(i))) {
          return false;
        }
      }
      return true;
    } else {

    return Traverser.forTree(FILE_TREE);
  }

  private static final SuccessorsFunction<File> FILE_TREE =
      file -> {
        // check isDirectory() just because it may be faster than listFiles() on a non-directory
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
          File[] files = file.listFiles();
          if (files != null) {
            return unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(files));
          }

 * worst case time complexity of O(N^2). You are extremely unlikely to hit this quadratic case on
 * randomly ordered data (the probability decreases faster than exponentially in N), but if you are
 * passing in unsanitized user data then a malicious user could force it. A light shuffle of the
 * data using an unpredictable seed should normally be enough to thwart this attack.
 *