cid chars are 16-bit unsigned integers. Currently we convert them to
single-char strings when inserting them into the CMap, and then convert
them back to integers when extracting them from the CMap. This patch
changes CMap so that cid chars stay in integer format throughout, saving
both time and space.
When loading the PDF from issue #4580, this change reduces peak RSS from
~600 to ~370 MiB. It also improves overall speed on that PDF by ~26%,
going from 724 ms to 533 ms.
This change avoids the element stringification caused by for..in for the
vast majority of CMaps.
When loading the PDF from issue #4580, this change reduces peak RSS from ~650
to ~600 MiB, and improves overall speed by ~20%, from 902 ms to 713 ms. Other
CMap-heavy documents will also see improvements.
This lets the JS engine resize the array elements buffer immediately,
thus avoiding some intermediate resizings. This can save multiple MiBs
of reallocation in text-heavy files.
In b5b94a4af3, i.e. PR #4259, we stopped using cidmaps.js. Despite that, it's still included when PDF.js is built. At almost 0.5 MB (and approx. 7000 lines), this is currently the single largest file in the codebase.
Including such a large file in the builds, when it is not actually used, seems extremely wasteful; hence this patch.
I have a large PDF where this function is called 1.6 million times
during loading. Minimizing the string concatenations reduces the
cumulative allocations done by Firefox within this function from 113 MB
to 48 MB.
DecodeStream currently initializes its |buffer| field to |null|, which
is reasonable, because lots of DecodeStreams never need to instantiate a
buffer. But this requires various special cases in the code.
This patch change it so DecodeStreamClosure has a single empty
Uint8Array which gets shared between all buffers upon initialization.
This avoids the special cases.
DecodeStream.prototype.ensureBuffer() is really hot, and this removes a
test from the fast path. For one 226 page scanned document this sped up
rendering by about 2%.
In src/core/obj.js, we convert a Ref to a string to index into a table like
this: 'R1.0'. This conversion is repeated numerous times.
This patch factors out the conversion into a new function.
Ref.prototype.toString().
This function can be called 100s of 1000s or even millions of times, and the
allocated return object accounts for 10% of all GC thing allocations for some
documents. It's easy to avoid, which reduces stress on the garbage collector,
and this patch does that.
