This property is not only completely unused now, it never actually appears to have been used. Even though the memory savings, from not initializing these extra typed arrays, won't be significant in the grand scheme of things it still seems completely unnecessary to keep allocating this data.
As far as I can tell, the main reason for the existence of `defaultColor` seem to be for documentation purposes. Hence the code is changed into comments instead, to keep the information around (but without the unnecessary allocations).
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