Compared to regular Objects there's a number of advantages to using Maps:
- They support proper iteration.
- They have a simple way to check for the existence of data.
- They have a simple/efficient way to check the number of elements.
If this functionality was added today, I cannot imagine that we'd choose an Object for this data.
In the Firefox PDF Viewer sending Maps to the scripting-implementation should be fine, since it uses the browser `Cu.cloneInto` functionality; see https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/toolkit/components/pdfjs/content/PdfSandbox.sys.mjs
However with QuickJS, used by the GENERIC viewer, all data needs to be stringified and Maps are converted into regular Objects (see also PR 21664). Hence the `objects` property, in the scripting-implementation, is converted back into a Map using the (renamed) `createMap` helper function.
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