Xuanwo 8939ef1f01 feat(python): warn on scalar GPU Functions (#4966)
GPU Functions that use a scalar callable currently invoke the callable
once per row. The SDK documents Arrow-vectorized callables, but silently
accepts a scalar GPU callable, which makes it easy to assume that the
runtime will batch model work automatically.

Warn during Function construction when a GPU callable does not use the
documented vectorized form. A callable is recognized as vectorized when
every input is annotated as `pyarrow.Array`, or when a single input is
annotated as `pyarrow.RecordBatch`. The warning explains the resulting
per-row invocation and shows how to opt into batch execution. CPU
Functions and the vectorized GPU forms do not emit it.

The warning is advisory and does not change registration serialization,
the artifact, the runtime adapter, or execution behavior. It is one part
of the ENT-3522 documentation-and-warning alternative; it does not claim
that a single A10G meets the original batch throughput requirement.

Validation on the designated EC2 host reused the compatible existing
native extension from `ent3563-sdk-freshness-9336cfb`; this does not
claim a new native package or GPU performance run. The final head has a
clean source tree and ran:

```bash
PYTHONPATH="$sdk/python/python" /home/ec2-user/.venvs/ent3563-0a839fa/bin/python -m pytest -q python/python/tests/test_first_class_function_slice2.py -k 'gpu_marker_uses_gpu_runtime or gpu_scalar_warning_names_the_vectorized_alternative'
/home/ec2-user/.venvs/ent3563-0a839fa/bin/ruff format --check python/python/lancedb/functions.py python/python/tests/test_first_class_function_slice2.py
/home/ec2-user/.venvs/ent3563-0a839fa/bin/ruff check python/python/lancedb/functions.py python/python/tests/test_first_class_function_slice2.py
```

The actual result was `2 passed, 123 deselected`; both Ruff commands
passed. The original 2,000-row single-A10G throughput requirement
remains a separate ENT-3522 acceptance gate.
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