*
 * <p>This is needed because annotations can't implement interfaces, which is also why reflection is
 * used to extract values from the properties of the various annotations.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@Target(value = {ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@GwtCompatible

 *
 * <p>This is needed because annotations can't implement interfaces, which is also why reflection is
 * used to extract values from the properties of the various annotations.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@Target(value = {ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@GwtCompatible

      long oldValue = atomic.get();
      if (oldValue == 0L || atomic.compareAndSet(oldValue, 0L)) {
        // only remove after setting to zero, to avoid concurrent updates
        map.remove(key, atomic);
        // succeed even if the remove fails, since the value was already adjusted
        return oldValue;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * If {@code (key, value)} is currently in the map, this method removes it and returns true;

**FastAPI** is all based on these type hints, they give it many advantages and benefits.

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

/// note

If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

///

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Abstract superclass of all test-suite builders for collection interfaces.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@GwtIncompatible
public abstract class AbstractCollectionTestSuiteBuilder<
        B extends AbstractCollectionTestSuiteBuilder<B, E>, E>

/**
 * A generic JUnit test which tests {@code remove(Object)} operations on a list. Can't be invoked
 * directly; please see {@link com.google.common.collect.testing.ListTestSuiteBuilder}.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Optional features of classes derived from {@code Map}.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // maybe avoidable if we rework the whole package?
@GwtCompatible
public enum MapFeature implements Feature<Map> {
  /**

import com.google.common.annotations.J2ktIncompatible;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import org.junit.Ignore;

/**
 * Tests {@link java.util.List#hashCode}.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.AbstractCollectionTester;
import org.junit.Ignore;

/**
 * Tests {@link java.util.Collection#equals}.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.

        int strideLimit = minLength & ~(stride - 1);
        int i;

        /*
         * Compare 8 bytes at a time. Benchmarking on x86 shows a stride of 8 bytes is no slower
         * than 4 bytes even on 32-bit. On the other hand, it is substantially faster on 64-bit.
         */
        for (i = 0; i < strideLimit; i += stride) {
          long lw = theUnsafe.getLong(left, BYTE_ARRAY_BASE_OFFSET + (long) i);