In order to eventually get rid of SystemJS and start using native `import`s instead, we'll need to provide "complete" file identifiers since otherwise there'll be MIME type errors when attempting to use `import`.
Note that Prettier, purposely, has only limited [configuration options](https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html). The configuration file is based on [the one in `mozilla central`](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/.prettierrc) with just a few additions (to avoid future breakage if the defaults ever changes).
Prettier is being used for a couple of reasons:
- To be consistent with `mozilla-central`, where Prettier is already in use across the tree.
- To ensure a *consistent* coding style everywhere, which is automatically enforced during linting (since Prettier is used as an ESLint plugin). This thus ends "all" formatting disussions once and for all, removing the need for review comments on most stylistic matters.
Many ESLint options are now redundant, and I've tried my best to remove all the now unnecessary options (but I may have missed some).
Note also that since Prettier considers the `printWidth` option as a guide, rather than a hard rule, this patch resorts to a small hack in the ESLint config to ensure that *comments* won't become too long.
*Please note:* This patch is generated automatically, by appending the `--fix` argument to the ESLint call used in the `gulp lint` task. It will thus require some additional clean-up, which will be done in a *separate* commit.
(On a more personal note, I'll readily admit that some of the changes Prettier makes are *extremely* ugly. However, in the name of consistency we'll probably have to live with that.)
The following changes were made:
- Remove unnecessary `typeof` checks in the `get`/`getAsync` methods.
- Reduce unnecessary code duplication in the `get`/`getAsync` methods.
- Inline the `Ref` checks in the `get`/`getAsync`/`getArray` methods, since it helps avoid many unnecessary functions calls. I.e. this way it's possible to directly call `XRef.{fetch, fetchAsync)` only when necessary, rather than always having to call `XRef.{fetchIfRef, fetchIfRefAsync)`.
This patch was tested using the PDF file from issue 2618, i.e. http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=226471, using the following manifest file:
```
[
{ "id": "issue2618",
"file": "../web/pdfs/issue2618.pdf",
"md5": "",
"rounds": 250,
"type": "eq"
}
]
```
This gave the following results when comparing this patch against the `master` branch:
```
-- Grouped By browser, stat --
browser | stat | Count | Baseline(ms) | Current(ms) | +/- | % | Result(P<.05)
------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------------
Firefox | Overall | 250 | 2821 | 2790 | -32 | -1.12 | faster
Firefox | Page Request | 250 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6.68 |
Firefox | Rendering | 250 | 2820 | 2788 | -32 | -1.13 | faster
```
Having these methods fallback to returning `null` in only *one* particular case seems outright wrong, since a "falsy" value will thus be handled incorrectly.
The only reason that this hasn't caused issues in practice is that there's only one call-site passing in three keys, and in that case we're trying to read a font file where falling back to `null` isn't a problem.
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.
