return 0x80;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:French|Latin|Western.*European)")) {
          // Mostly 1-byte UTF-8 sequences, mixed with occasional 2-byte
          // sequences - "Western European" text
          return 0x90;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Branch.*Prediction.*Hostile)")) {
          // Defeat branch predictor for: c < 0x80 ; branch taken 50% of the time.
          return 0x100;

          return 0x80;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:French|Latin|Western.*European)")) {
          // Mostly 1-byte UTF-8 sequences, mixed with occasional 2-byte
          // sequences - "Western European" text
          return 0x90;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Branch.*Prediction.*Hostile)")) {
          // Defeat branch predictor for: c < 0x80 ; branch taken 50% of the time.
          return 0x100;

eyes, but it said nothing.

  `Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I
daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
Conqueror.'  (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had
no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)  So she
began again:  `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in
her French lesson-book.  The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the

1.  API changes require discussion, use cases, etc. Code comes later.
2.  Pull requests are great for small fixes for bugs, documentation, etc.
3.  Pull requests are not merged directly into the master branch.
4.  Code contributions require signing a Google CLA.

API changes
-----------

We make changes to Guava's public [APIs][], including adding new APIs, very

      i++;
    }

    // This loop optimizes for chars less than 0x800.
    for (; i < utf16Length; i++) {
      char c = sequence.charAt(i);
      if (c < 0x800) {
        utf8Length += ((0x7f - c) >>> 31); // branch free!
      } else {
        utf8Length += encodedLengthGeneral(sequence, i);
        break;
      }
    }

    if (utf8Length < utf16Length) {

          - os: windows-latest
            java: 21
            root-pom: pom.xml
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    env:
      ROOT_POM: ${{ matrix.root-pom }}
    steps:
      # Cancel any previous runs for the same branch that are still running.
      - name: 'Cancel previous runs'
        uses: styfle/cancel-workflow-action@85880fa0301c86cca9da44039ee3bb12d3bedbfa # 0.12.1
        with:
          access_token: ${{ github.token }}

eyes, but it said nothing.

  `Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I
daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
Conqueror.'  (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had
no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)  So she
began again:  `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in
her French lesson-book.  The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the

    return Platform.stringIsNullOrEmpty(string);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a string, of length at least {@code minLength}, consisting of {@code string} prepended
   * with as many copies of {@code padChar} as are necessary to reach that length. For example,
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code padStart("7", 3, '0')} returns {@code "007"}
   *   <li>{@code padStart("2010", 3, '0')} returns {@code "2010"}
   * </ul>
   *

  @CheckForNull
  public abstract C previous(C value);

  /**
   * Returns a signed value indicating how many nested invocations of {@link #next} (if positive) or
   * {@link #previous} (if negative) are needed to reach {@code end} starting from {@code start}.
   * For example, if {@code end = next(next(next(start)))}, then {@code distance(start, end) == 3}
   * and {@code distance(end, start) == -3}. As well, {@code distance(a, a)} is always zero.

      hashTableKToV[keyBucket] = dest;
    } else {
      int prevInBucket = hashTableKToV[keyBucket];
      for (int entryInBucket = nextInBucketKToV[prevInBucket];
          /* should never reach end */ ;
          entryInBucket = nextInBucketKToV[entryInBucket]) {
        if (entryInBucket == src) {
          nextInBucketKToV[prevInBucket] = dest;
          break;
        }