The purpose of these caches is to reduce peak memory usage, by only ever having *a single* instance of a particular object.
However, as-is these caches are never cleared and they will thus remain until the worker is destroyed. This could very well have a negative effect on total memory usage, particularly for large/long documents, hence it seems to make sense to clear out these caches together with various other ones.
This is similar to the existing caching used to reduced the number of `Cmd` and `Name` objects.
With the `tracemonkey.pdf` file, this patch changes the number of `Ref` objects as follows (in the default viewer):
| | Loading the first page | Loading *all* the pages |
|----------|------------------------|-------------------------|
| `master` | 332 | 3265 |
| `patch` | 163 | 996 |
The `toString` method always creates two string objects (for the 'R'
character and for the `num` concatenation) and in the worst case
creates three string objects (one more for the `gen` concatenation).
For the Tracemonkey paper alone, this resulted in 12000 string
objects when scrolling from the top to the bottom of the document.
Since this is a hot function, it's worth minimizing the number of string
objects, especially for large documents, to reduce peak memory usage.
This commit refactors the `toString` method to always create only one
string object.
Please note that the `glyphlist.js` and `unicode.js` files are converted to CommonJS modules instead, since Babel cannot handle files that large and they are thus excluded from transpilation.
Given the nature of `EOF` and `isEOF`, it seems to me that they really ought to be placed in `core/primitives.js` instead.
In general, it doesn't seem great to have to depend on the entire `core/parser.js` file for such simple primitives/helper functions.
In particular, while `core/ps_parser.js` is completely separate from `core/parser.js` with regards to its function, it still depends on the latter for just *one* primitive.
Note that compared to e.g. PR 7389, this will not reduce the number of dependencies for `core/ps_parser`, however the new dependency IMHO makes more sense.
This is similar to the existing `isCmd` and `isDict` functions, which already support similar kind of checks.
With the updated `isName` function, we'll be able to simplify many callsites from: `isName(someVariable) && someVariable.name === 'someName'` to: `isName(someVariable, 'someName')`.
Currently the `getPageIndex` method will happily return `0`, even if the `Ref` parameter doesn't actually point to a proper /Page dictionary.
Having the API trust that the consumer is doing the right thing seems error-prone, hence this patch which adds a check for this case.
Given that the `Catalog_getPageIndex` method isn't used in any hot part of the codebase, this extra check shouldn't be a problem.
(Note: in the standard viewer, it is only ever used from `PDFLinkService_navigateTo` if a destination needs to be resolved during document loading, which isn't common enough to be an issue IMHO.)
`Dict_getAll` is problematic for a number of reasons. First of all, as issue 6961 shows, it can be really bad for performance, since it dereferences all indirect objects.
Second of all, all the derefencing can lead to data being unncessarily requested when ranged/chunked loading is used, thus unnecessarily delaying rendering.
Note: For cases where `Dict_getAll` was previously used, `Dict_getKeys` in combination with `Dict_get` can be used instead. This has the advantage that data isn't requested until it's actually needed.
