The current value originated in PR 2317, and in the decade that have passed the amount of RAM available in (most) devices should have increased a fair bit.
Nowadays we also do a much better job of detecting repeated images at both the page- and document-level, which helps reduce overall memory-usage in many documents.
Finally the constant is also moved into the `src/shared/util.js` file, since it was implicitly used on both the main- and worker-thread previously.
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