Reduce, now unnecessary, asynchronicity in the BasePreferences
constructor
#12630
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Originally the default preferences were defined in a JSON-file checked into the repository, which was loaded using SystemJS in development mode.
Over the years a number of changes have been made to this code, most notably:
AppOptions
abstraction.Hence the default preferences are now available synchronously even in the development viewer, and it's thus no longer necessary to defer to the microtask queue (since
getDefaultPreferences
is async) just to get the default preferences.While the effect of these changes is quite small, it does reduces the time it takes for the preferences to be fully initialized. Given the amount of asynchronous code during viewer initialization, every bit of time that we can save should thus help.
Smaller/simpler diff with /~https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/12630/files?w=1