final class AllEqualOrdering extends Ordering<@Nullable Object> implements Serializable {
  static final AllEqualOrdering INSTANCE = new AllEqualOrdering();

  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("UnusedVariable") // intentionally weird Comparator
  public int compare(@CheckForNull Object left, @CheckForNull Object right) {
    return 0;
  }

  @Override
  public <E extends @Nullable Object> List<E> sortedCopy(Iterable<E> iterable) {

   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterable<T> mergeSorted(
      final Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends T>> iterables,
      final Comparator<? super T> comparator) {
    checkNotNull(iterables, "iterables");
    checkNotNull(comparator, "comparator");
    Iterable<T> iterable =
        new FluentIterable<T>() {
          @Override
          public Iterator<T> iterator() {

   * lesser. For example, {@code [] < [1.0f] < [1.0f, 2.0f] < [2.0f]}.
   *
   * <p>The returned comparator is inconsistent with {@link Object#equals(Object)} (since arrays
   * support only identity equality), but it is consistent with {@link Arrays#equals(float[],
   * float[])}.
   *
   * @since 2.0
   */
  public static Comparator<float[]> lexicographicalComparator() {
    return LexicographicalComparator.INSTANCE;
  }

   * lesser. For example, {@code [] < [1.0f] < [1.0f, 2.0f] < [2.0f]}.
   *
   * <p>The returned comparator is inconsistent with {@link Object#equals(Object)} (since arrays
   * support only identity equality), but it is consistent with {@link Arrays#equals(float[],
   * float[])}.
   *
   * @since 2.0
   */
  public static Comparator<float[]> lexicographicalComparator() {
    return LexicographicalComparator.INSTANCE;
  }

    }

    @Override
    SortedSet<E> delegate() {
      return (SortedSet<E>) super.delegate();
    }

    @Override
    @CheckForNull
    public Comparator<? super E> comparator() {
      synchronized (mutex) {
        return delegate().comparator();
      }
    }

    @Override
    public SortedSet<E> subSet(E fromElement, E toElement) {
      synchronized (mutex) {

                return;
            }

            cpc.add(md);
            //
            //            TreeSet<MetadataGraphEdge> deps = new TreeSet<MetadataGraphEdge>(
            //                        new Comparator<MetadataGraphEdge>()
            //                        {
            //                            public int compare( MetadataGraphEdge e1
            //                                              , MetadataGraphEdge e2

 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.PriorityQueue;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.synonym.SynonymMap;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.Proxy;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;
import com.google.errorprone.annotations.DoNotCall;
import java.io.InvalidObjectException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.function.BinaryOperator;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collector;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> UnmodifiableIterator<T> mergeSorted(
      Iterable<? extends Iterator<? extends T>> iterators, Comparator<? super T> comparator) {
    checkNotNull(iterators, "iterators");
    checkNotNull(comparator, "comparator");

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

  /**
   * An iterator that performs a lazy N-way merge, calculating the next value each time the iterator