This patch is essentially *another* continuation of PR 11263, which tried to improve loading/initialization performance of *very* large/long documents.
For most documents, unless they're *very* long, we'll eagerly initialize all of the pages in the viewer. For shorter documents having all pages loaded/initialized early provides overall better performance/UX in the viewer, however there's cases where it can instead *hurt* performance.
For documents with a couple of thousand pages[1], the parsing and pre-rendering of the *second* page of the document can be delayed (quite a bit). The reason for this is that we trigger `PDFDocumentProxy.getPage` for *all pages* early during the viewer initialization, which causes the worker-thread to be swamped with handling (potentially) thousands of `getPage`-calls and leaving very little time for other parsing (such as e.g. of operatorLists).
To address this situation, this patch thus proposes temporarily "pausing" the eager `PDFDocumentProxy.getPage`-calls once a threshold has been reached, to give the worker-thread a change to handle other requests.[2]
Obviously this may *slightly* delay the "pagesloaded" event in longer documents, but considering that it's already the result of asynchronous parsing that'll hopefully not be seen as a blocker for these changes.[3]
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[1] A particularly problematic example is https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/files/876321/kjv.pdf (16 MB large), which is a document with 2236 pages and a /Pages-tree that's only *one* level deep.
[2] Please note that I initially considered simply chaining the `PDFDocumentProxy.getPage`-calls, however that'd slowed things down for all documents which didn't seem appropriate.
[3] This patch will *hopefully* also make it possible to re-visit PR 11312, since it seems that changing `Catalog.getPageDict` to an `async` method wasn't the problem in itself. Rather it appears that it leads to slightly different timings, thus exacerbating the already existing issues with the worker-thread being overloaded by `getPage`-calls.
Having recently worked with that method, there's a couple of (very old) issues that I'd also like to address and having `Catalog.getPageDict` be `async` would simplify things a great deal.
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