[3.8 fix] VRTComplexSource: fix excessive RAM usage with many sources (fixes #8967, 3.8.0 regression) #8970
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(fixes #8967, 3.8.0 regression)
m_abyWrkBuffer and m_abyWrkBufferMask were mistakenly put at the VRTComplexSource level, missing that there can be a big number of sources whose lifetime is the same as the VRT dataset, and thus it is inappropriate to have long-lived working buffers at that level.
In master, this is changed to actually use one single instance of them for all sources, placed at the dataset level. In that branch, we can't do that as it would break ABI. So instead clear them after their immediate use (like was done in GDAL < 3.8)
Master fix in #8969