This patch will help pathological cases the most, with issue 2813 being a particularily problematic example. While there's only *four* `/ExtGState` resources, there's a total `29062` of `setGState` operators. Even though parsing of a single `/ExtGState` resource is quite fast, having to re-parse them thousands of times does add up quite significantly.
For simplicity we'll only cache "simple" `/ExtGState` resource, since e.g. the general `SMask` case cannot be easily cached (without re-factoring other code, which may have undesirable effects on general parsing).
By caching "simple" `/ExtGState` resource, we thus improve performance by:
- Not having to fetch/validate/parse the same `/ExtGState` data over and over.
- Handling of repeated `setGState` operators becomes *synchronous* during the `OperatorList` building, instead of having to defer to the event-loop/microtask-queue since the `/ExtGState` parsing is done asynchronously.
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Obviously I had intended to include (standard) benchmark results with this patch, but for reasons I don't understand the test run-time (even with `master`) of the document in issue 2813 is *a lot* slower than in the development viewer (making normal benchmarking infeasible).
However, testing this manually in the development viewer (using `pdfBug=Stats`) shows a *reduction* of `~10 %` in the rendering time of the PDF document in issue 2813.
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