* useForNull} has no effect on the instance it is invoked on! You must store and use the new joiner
 * instance returned by the method. This makes joiners thread-safe, and safe to store as {@code
 * static final} constants.
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * // Bad! Do not do this!
 * Joiner joiner = Joiner.on(',');
 * joiner.skipNulls(); // does nothing!
 * return joiner.join("wrong", null, "wrong");

  }

  /**
   * Returns the empty multimap.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> the instance returned is a singleton.
   */
  // Casting is safe because the multimap will never hold any elements.
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <K, V> ImmutableListMultimap<K, V> of() {
    return (ImmutableListMultimap<K, V>) EmptyImmutableListMultimap.INSTANCE;
  }

        This runs the MLIR bridge only when an analysis of the graph only when
        an analysis of the graph determines that it is safe to run.
    *   Add new enum value `MLIR_BRIDGE_ROLLOUT_SAFE_MODE_FALLBACK_ENABLED'
        to`tf.config.experimental.mlir_bridge_rollout` to enable a fallback for
        the MLIR bridge in a \"safe\" mode. This runs the MLIR bridge in a

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>All elements in the returned list must be {@link ListenableFuture} instances. The easiest
   * way to obtain a {@code List<ListenableFuture<T>>} from this method is an unchecked (but safe)
   * cast:
   *
   * <pre>
   *   {@code @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // guaranteed by invokeAll contract}
   *   {@code List<ListenableFuture<T>> futures = (List) executor.invokeAll(tasks);}
   * </pre>
   *

      bufferSize = 1;
    } else if (bufferSize < k) {
      buffer[bufferSize++] = elem;
      // uncheckedCastNullableTToT is safe because bufferSize > 0.
      if (comparator.compare(elem, uncheckedCastNullableTToT(threshold)) > 0) {
        threshold = elem;
      }
      // uncheckedCastNullableTToT is safe because bufferSize > 0.
    } else if (comparator.compare(elem, uncheckedCastNullableTToT(threshold)) < 0) {

      keyList.count = 0;
      modCount++;
    } else {
      // requireNonNull is safe (under the conditions listed in the comment in the branch above).
      KeyList<K, V> keyList = requireNonNull(keyToKeyList.get(node.getKey()));
      keyList.count--;

      if (node.previousSibling == null) {
        // requireNonNull is safe because we checked that not *both* siblings were null.

 *   <li>Qualifiers for distinguishing between beans of the same type</li>
 *   <li>Multiple scopes (Singleton, Session, and MojoExecution)</li>
 *   <li>Priority-based implementation selection</li>
 *   <li>Type-safe dependency injection</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */

 * invoke methods, they invoke methods on the {@code ForwardingBlockingDeque}.
 *
 * <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 Emily Soldal
 * @since 21.0 (since 14.0 as {@link com.google.common.collect.ForwardingBlockingDeque})
 */
@J2ktIncompatible
@GwtIncompatible

 * implementing {@code Map}, the additional type-safe operations {@link #putInstance} and {@link
 * #getInstance} are available.
 *
 * <p>Generally, implementations don't support {@link #put} and {@link #putAll} because there is no
 * way to check an object at runtime to be an instance of a {@link TypeToken}. Instead, caller
 * should use the type safe {@link #putInstance}.
 *

 * implementing {@code Map}, the additional type-safe operations {@link #putInstance} and {@link
 * #getInstance} are available.
 *
 * <p>Generally, implementations don't support {@link #put} and {@link #putAll} because there is no
 * way to check an object at runtime to be an instance of a {@link TypeToken}. Instead, caller
 * should use the type safe {@link #putInstance}.
 *