8177789: fix collections framework links to point to java.util package doc
Reviewed-by: bchristi, martin

8155600: Performance optimization of Arrays.asList().iterator()
Reviewed-by: redestad, shade, plevart, attila

8136924: Vectorized support for array equals/compare/mismatch using Unsafe
Reviewed-by: plevart, jrose, kvn

8141409: Arrays.equals accepting a Comparator
Reviewed-by: rriggs

Merge

8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings
Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti
Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

8033148: Lexicographic comparators for arrays
Reviewed-by: jrose, chegar, bchristi, mduigou

8133188: docs: replace <tt> tags (obsolete in html5) for java.util
Reviewed-by: martin

Merge

8076112: Add @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate annotation to indicate methods for which Java Runtime has intrinsics
Summary: Annotate possibly intrinsified methods with @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate. Add checks omitted by intrinsics to the library code. Add CheckIntrinsics flags to check consistency of intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, thartmann, vlivanov, abuckley, darcy, ascarpino, briangoetz, alanb, aph, dnsimon

6260652: (coll) Arrays.asList(x).toArray().getClass() should be Object[].class
Summary: return Arrays.copyOf(a, a.length, Object[].class)
Reviewed-by: igerasim, psandoz

8074043: java.util.Arrays setAll and parallelSetAll subrange note
Reviewed-by: smarks

8067377: My hobby: caning, then then canning, the the can-can
Summary: Fix ALL the stutters!
Reviewed-by: rriggs, mchung, lancea

8056951: pico-optimize contains(Object) methods
Summary: use idiiom >= 0 consistently to check for valid index
Reviewed-by: mduigou

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com