assertLessThan(RUNNING, STOPPING);
    assertLessThan(RUNNING, FAILED);

    assertLessThan(STOPPING, FAILED);
    assertLessThan(STOPPING, TERMINATED);
  }

  private static <T extends Comparable<? super T>> void assertLessThan(T a, T b) {
    if (a.compareTo(b) >= 0) {
      fail(String.format(Locale.ROOT, "Expected %s to be less than %s", a, b));
    }
  }

import java.util.SortedMap;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * A wrapper around {@code TreeMap} that aggressively checks to see if keys are mutually comparable.
 * This implementation passes the navigable map test suites.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtIncompatible
public final class SafeTreeMap<K, V> implements Serializable, NavigableMap<K, V> {

    void foo(
        String s,
        Runnable r,
        Number n,
        Iterable<?> it,
        boolean b,
        Equivalence<String> eq,
        Exception e,
        InputStream in,
        Comparable<?> c,
        Ordering<Integer> ord,
        Charset charset,
        TimeUnit unit,
        Class<?> cls,
        Joiner joiner,
        Pattern pattern,
        UnsignedInteger ui,

   * KeyAbsentBehavior)} using {@link Ordering#natural}.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
  public static <E extends Comparable> int binarySearch(
      List<? extends E> list,
      E e,
      KeyPresentBehavior presentBehavior,
      KeyAbsentBehavior absentBehavior) {
    checkNotNull(e);

/**
 * Maven Artifact interface. Notice that it mixes artifact definition concepts (groupId, artifactId, version)
 * with dependency information (version range, scope).
 */
public interface Artifact extends Comparable<Artifact> {

    @Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
    String RELEASE_VERSION = "RELEASE";

    @Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
    String LATEST_VERSION = "LATEST";

    String SNAPSHOT_VERSION = "SNAPSHOT";

  public static void testInvariants(RangeSet<?> rangeSet) {
    testInvariantsInternal(rangeSet);
    testInvariantsInternal(rangeSet.complement());
  }

  private static <C extends Comparable<?>> void testInvariantsInternal(RangeSet<C> rangeSet) {
    assertEquals(rangeSet.asRanges().isEmpty(), rangeSet.isEmpty());
    assertEquals(rangeSet.asDescendingSetOfRanges().isEmpty(), rangeSet.isEmpty());

@SuppressWarnings({"serial", "rawtypes"})
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class RegularImmutableSortedSet<E> extends ImmutableSortedSet<E> {
  static final RegularImmutableSortedSet<Comparable> NATURAL_EMPTY_SET =
      new RegularImmutableSortedSet<>(ImmutableList.<Comparable>of(), Ordering.natural());

  private final transient ImmutableList<E> elements;

  RegularImmutableSortedSet(ImmutableList<E> elements, Comparator<? super E> comparator) {

    return set;
  }

  private Element newElement() {
    int value = random.nextInt();
    return isUserTypeFast ? new Element(value) : new SlowElement(value);
  }

  static class Element implements Comparable<Element> {
    final int hash;

    Element(int hash) {
      this.hash = hash;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object obj) {

/**
 * A benchmark to determine the overhead of sorting with {@link Ordering#from(Comparator)}, or with
 * {@link Ordering#natural()}, as opposed to using the inlined {@link Arrays#sort(Object[])}
 * implementation, which uses {@link Comparable#compareTo} directly.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
public class ComparatorDelegationOverheadBenchmark {
  private final Integer[][] inputArrays = new Integer[0x100][];

  @Param({"10000"})
  int n;

  @Param boolean noWorkToDo;

  Random random;
  String testString;

  @BeforeExperiment
  void setUp() {
    random = new Random(0xdeadbeef); // fix the seed so results are comparable across runs

    int nonAlpha = size / nonAlphaRatio;
    int alpha = size - nonAlpha;

    List<Character> chars = Lists.newArrayListWithCapacity(size);
    for (int i = 0; i < alpha; i++) {