* Collections#emptyList}, and is preferable mainly for consistency and maintainability of your
   * code.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> the instance returned is a singleton.
   */
  // Casting to any type is safe because the list will never hold any elements.
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <E> ImmutableList<E> of() {
    return (ImmutableList<E>) EMPTY;
  }

  /**

  }

  /**
   * Performs {@link NullPointerTester} checks for all top-level classes in the package. For a class
   * {@code C}
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>All visible static methods are checked such that passing null for any parameter that's
   *       not annotated nullable (according to the rules of {@link NullPointerTester}) should throw
   *       {@link NullPointerException}.

    }
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(causes);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code throwable}'s cause, cast to {@code expectedCauseType}.
   *
   * <p>Prefer this method instead of manually casting an exception's cause. For example, {@code
   * (IOException) e.getCause()} throws a {@link ClassCastException} that discards the original
   * exception {@code e} if the cause is not an {@link IOException}, but {@code

  `Yes,' said Alice, `we learned French and music.'

  `And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.

  `Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.

  `Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock
Turtle in a tone of great relief.  `Now at OURS they had at the
end of the bill, "French, music, AND WASHING--extra."'

  `You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; `living at the

   * elements.
   *
   * <p>To cycle over the elements {@code n} times, use the following: {@code
   * Iterables.concat(Collections.nCopies(n, Arrays.asList(elements)))}
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> If passing a single element {@code e}, the {@code Stream} equivalent
   * of this method is {@code Stream.generate(() -> e)}. Otherwise, put the elements in a collection

      Throwable cause = e.getCause();
      if (policy.isExpectedType(cause)) {
        return;
      }
      throw new AssertionError(
          String.format(
              "wrong exception thrown from %s when passing null to %s parameter at index %s.%n"
                  + "Full parameters: %s%n"
                  + "Actual exception message: %s",
              invokable,
              invokable.getParameters().get(paramIndex).getType(),

   *
   * @param formal The type whose type variables or itself is mapped to other type(s). It's almost
   *     always a bug if {@code formal} isn't a type variable and contains no type variable. Make
   *     sure you are passing the two parameters in the right order.
   * @param actual The type that the formal type variable(s) are mapped to. It can be or contain yet
   *     other type variables, in which case these type variables will be further resolved if

                // Clean release
                releaseHandle(handle);
                break;
        }
    }
}
```

## 10. Performance Considerations

### 10.1 Handle Caching Strategy
```java
public class HandleCache {
    private final int maxHandles = 1000;
    private final LinkedHashMap<String, HandleInfo> lruCache;
    
    public HandleCache() {

| _Required_    | _No_                                               |

### Policy

## Provider-specific Notes

* AWS
  * Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul)
  * Allow cross-region image pulling with ECR
  * More reliable kube-up/kube-down
  * Enable ICMP Type 3 Code 4 for ELBs
  * ARP caching fix
  * Use /dev/xvdXX names
  * ELB:
    * ELB proxy protocol support 
	* mixed plaintext/encrypted ports support in ELBs
    * SSL support for ELB listeners
  * Allow VPC CIDR to be specified (experimental)