When JPEG images are decoded by the browser, on the main-thread, there's a handful of short-lived copies of the image data; see c3f4690bde/src/display/api.js (L2364-L2408)
That code thus becomes quite problematic for very big JPEG images, since it increases peak memory usage a lot during decoding. In the referenced issue there's a couple of JPEG images whose dimensions are `10006 x 7088` (i.e. ~68 mega-pixels), which causes the *peak* memory usage to increase by close to `1 GB` (i.e. one giga-byte) in my testing.
By letting the PDF.js JPEG decoder, rather than the browser, handle very large images the *peak* memory usage is considerably reduced and the allocated memory also seem to be reclaimed faster.
*Please note:* This will lead to movement in some existing `eq` tests.
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