This part of the (modern) preprocessor is now dead code, since we no longer use `require` statements anywhere in the main code-base.
Note that as part of the changes leading up to PDF.js version `4` we removed all[1] the remaining `require` statements, and we also have an ESLint rule to ensure that no new ones are accidentally added.
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[1] With two small exceptions, in benchmarking-code and in the Webpack-example.
