@@ -4191,7 +4191,9 @@ Or do you want to use the entrypoints '${name}' and '${runtime}' independently o
 			return callback();
 		}
 		// `jobs` is reassigned per iteration; embedded source is resolved over all.
-		const allJobs = jobs;
+		// Untapped nothing is recorded, so the array is not held past its iteration.
+		const allJobs =
+			this.hooks.renderEmbeddedSource.taps.length === 0 ? undefined : jobs;
 		let statModulesFromCache = 0;
 		let statModulesGenerated = 0;
 		const { chunkGraph, moduleGraph, dependencyTemplates, runtimeTemplate } =
@@ -4284,7 +4286,7 @@ Or do you want to use the entrypoints '${name}' and '${runtime}' independently o
 								(statModulesGenerated + statModulesFromCache)
 						)}% code generated (${statModulesGenerated} generated, ${statModulesFromCache} from cache)`
 					);
-					this._resolveEmbeddedSources(allJobs, (err) => {
+					this._resolveEmbeddedSources(allJobs || jobs, (err) => {
 						this._embeddedSources.clear();
 						this._pendingEmbeddedSources.clear();
 						callback(err);
 
@@ -11965,14 +11965,6 @@ let _unitScale = ABSOLUTE_UNIT_SCALE;
 /** @type {EmbeddedSourceRenderer | undefined} */
 let _renderEmbeddedSource;
 
-/**
- * Offer a url's `data:` payload to the renderer, and rebuild the URL around
- * what comes back. `null` when nothing should change — not a data URL, a media
- * type naming no language webpack knows, a payload that would not round-trip,
- * or a renderer that declined.
- * @param {string} url the url body, unquoted and unescaped
- * @returns {string | null} the rebuilt URL, or null to emit the original
- */
 const _CSS_STRING_ESCAPE_RE = /[\\\n]/g;
 
 /**