private static final class AvlNode<E extends @Nullable Object> {
    /*
     * For "normal" nodes, the type of this field is `E`, not `@Nullable E` (though note that E is a
     * type that can include null, as in a TreeMultiset<@Nullable String>).
     *
     * For the header node, though, this field contains `null`, regardless of the type of the
     * multiset.
     *

`I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.  Let
me see:  that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,
you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good
opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,
that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude

   *     neither fast nor secure. As of January 2017, we suggest:
   *     <ul>
   *       <li>For security:
   *           {@link Hashing#sha256} or a higher-level API.
   *       <li>For speed: {@link Hashing#goodFastHash}, though see its docs for caveats.
   *     </ul>
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static HashFunction md5() {
    return Md5Holder.MD5;
  }

  private static class Md5Holder {

      // If map has a null comparator, the keys should have a natural ordering,
      // even though K doesn't explicitly implement Comparable.
      comparator = (Comparator<? super K>) NATURAL_ORDER;
    }
    if (map instanceof ImmutableSortedMap) {
      // TODO(kevinb): Prove that this cast is safe, even though
      // Collections.unmodifiableSortedMap requires the same key type.
      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

  }

  public void testManualServiceFailureIdempotence() {
    ManualSwitchedService service = new ManualSwitchedService();
    /*
     * Set up a RecordingListener to perform its built-in assertions, even though we won't look at
     * its state history.
     */
    RecordingListener unused = RecordingListener.record(service);
    service.startAsync();
    service.notifyFailed(new Exception("1"));

         * the type parameter is <E>, since otherwise the
         * MultiExceptionListIterator wouldn't be an Iterator<E>. The cast is
         * safe, even though javac can't tell.
         *
         * Sun bug 6665356 is an additional complication. Until OpenJDK 7, javac
         * doesn't recognize this kind of cast as unchecked cast. Neither does

      this.valueHash = valueHash;
    }
  }

  private static final double LOAD_FACTOR = 1.0;

  /*
   * The following two arrays may *contain* nulls, but they are never *themselves* null: Even though
   * they are not initialized inline in the constructor, they are initialized from init(), which the
   * constructor calls (as does readObject()).
   */

     * requireNonNull checks below). Plus, we're *already* lying here, since newHeader passes a null
     * key and value, which we pass to the superconstructor, even though the key and value type for
     * a given entry might not include null. The right fix for the header problems is probably to
     * define a separate MultimapLink interface with a separate "header" implementation, which

 * <p>would be flagged as having called {@code sqrt()} with an illegal argument.
 *
 * <h3>Performance</h3>
 *
 * <p>Avoid passing message arguments that are expensive to compute; your code will always compute
 * them, even though they usually won't be needed. If you have such arguments, use the conventional
 * if/throw idiom instead.
 *
 * <p>Depending on your message arguments, memory may be allocated for boxing and varargs array

     * multimap and its {@link Multimap#asMap()} view are {@link ImmutableSortedSet} instances.
     * However, serialization does not preserve that property, though it does maintain the key and
     * value ordering.
     *
     * @since 8.0
     */
    // TODO: Make serialization behavior consistent.
    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    @Override