mozilla/pdf.js — pull request #5025 by nnethercote (2014-07-03 01:59:50+00:00)
Title: Improve how DecodeStream handles empty buffers.

DecodeStream currently initializes its |buffer| field to |null|, which
is reasonable, because lots of DecodeStreams never need to instantiate a
buffer. But this requires various special cases in the code.

This patch change it so DecodeStreamClosure has a single empty
Uint8Array which gets shared between all buffers upon initialization.
This avoids the special cases.

DecodeStream.prototype.ensureBuffer() is really hot, and this removes a
test from the fast path. For one 226 page scanned document this sped up
rendering by about 2%.