The other image decoders, i.e. the JBIG2 and JPEG 2000 ones, are using the common helper function `readUint16`. Most likely, the only reason that the JPEG decoder is doing it this way is because it originated *outside* of the PDF.js library.
Hence we can simply re-factor `src/core/jpg.js` to use the common `readUint16` helper function, which is especially nice given that the functionality was essentially *duplicated* in the code.