*
   * @since 11.0
   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterable<T> mergeSorted(
      Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends T>> iterables, Comparator<? super T> comparator) {
    checkNotNull(iterables, "iterables");
    checkNotNull(comparator, "comparator");
    Iterable<T> iterable =
        new FluentIterable<T>() {
          @Override
          public Iterator<T> iterator() {

   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterable<T> mergeSorted(
      Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends T>> iterables, Comparator<? super T> comparator) {
    checkNotNull(iterables, "iterables");
    checkNotNull(comparator, "comparator");
    Iterable<T> iterable =
        new FluentIterable<T>() {
          @Override
          public Iterator<T> iterator() {

import com.google.common.collect.testing.google.BiMapTestSuiteBuilder;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.google.TestStringBiMapGenerator;
import com.google.common.io.BaseEncoding;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.NavigableMap;

 * equality for both keys and values. This may not be the desired behavior for map implementations
 * that use non-standard notions of key equality, such as the entry of a {@code SortedMap} whose
 * comparator is not consistent with {@code equals}.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods are not guaranteed to be thread-safe, even when all of the
 * methods that they depend on are thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Mike Bostock

import java.nio.FloatBuffer;
import java.nio.IntBuffer;
import java.nio.LongBuffer;
import java.nio.ShortBuffer;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Currency;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

 * 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;

   * example, {@code [] < [1L] < [1L, 2L] < [2L]}.
   *
   * <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(long[],
   * long[])}.
   *
   * @since 2.0
   */
  public static Comparator<long[]> lexicographicalComparator() {
    return LexicographicalComparator.INSTANCE;
  }

   * HashMultimap#create()}, {@link LinkedHashMultimap#create()}, {@link
   * LinkedListMultimap#create()}, {@link TreeMultimap#create()}, and {@link
   * TreeMultimap#create(Comparator, Comparator)} won't suffice.
   *
   * <p>Note: the multimap assumes complete ownership over of {@code map} and the collections
   * returned by {@code factory}. Those objects should not be manually updated and they should not

    Arrays.sort(entries, DecreasingCount.INSTANCE);
    return ImmutableMultiset.copyFromEntries(asList(entries));
  }

  private static final class DecreasingCount implements Comparator<Entry<?>> {
    static final Comparator<Entry<?>> INSTANCE = new DecreasingCount();

    @Override
    public int compare(Entry<?> entry1, Entry<?> entry2) {

    Arrays.sort(entries, DecreasingCount.INSTANCE);
    return ImmutableMultiset.copyFromEntries(asList(entries));
  }

  private static final class DecreasingCount implements Comparator<Entry<?>> {
    static final Comparator<Entry<?>> INSTANCE = new DecreasingCount();

    @Override
    public int compare(Entry<?> entry1, Entry<?> entry2) {