Regardless of the size of an encoded image, SourceBuffer::Compact would
try to consolidate all of the chunks into a single chunk. If an image is
quite large, it can be actively harmful to do this, because we want a
very large contiguous chunk of memory for no real reason, and spend
extra time on the main thread doing the memcpy/consolidation.
Instead we now cap out the chunk size at 20MB. If we start allocating
chunks of this size, we will not perform compacting when we have
received all of the data. (Save for realloc'ing the last chunk since it
probably isn't full.)
On a related note, if we hit an out-of-memory condition in the middle of
appending data to the SourceBuffer, we would swallow the error. This is
because nsIInputStream::ReadSegments will succeed if any data was
written. This leaves the SourceBuffer out of sync. We now propogate this
error up properly to the higher levels.
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