RFR: 8355223: Improve documentation on @IntrinsicCandidate [v6]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:26:30 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In offline discussion, we noted that the documentation on this annotation does not recommend minimizing the intrinsified section and moving whatever can be done in Java to Java; thus I prepared this documentation update, to shrink a "TLDR" essay to something concise for readers, such as pointing to that list at `vmIntrinsics.hpp` instead of "a list".
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains eight additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Move intrinsic to be a subsection; just one most common function of the annotation
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into doc/intrinsic-candidate
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into doc/intrinsic-candidate
>  - Update src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/vm/annotation/IntrinsicCandidate.java
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Raffaello Giulietti <raffaello.giulietti at oracle.com>
>  - Shorter first sentence
>  - Updates, thanks to John
>  - Refine validation and defensive copying
>  - 8355223: Improve documentation on @IntrinsicCandidate

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/vm/annotation/IntrinsicCandidate.java line 39:

> 37:  * <h2 id="intrinsification">Intrinsification</h2>
> 38:  * The most frequently special treatment is intrinsification, which replaces a
> 39:  * candidate method's body, bytecode or native, with handwritten platform

Is this sentence missing the word "code" after "native"? Should it have been:

> bytecode or native code, ...

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24777#discussion_r2097002980