gzip: new GZIP_BIG_MEM option

Enabling the config option on my standard linux box and zipping a
random 250mb file:

small mem: 21.85user 0.44system 0:22.35elapsed
big mem:   13.45user 0.46system 0:13.94elapsed

Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <ianw@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/archival/gzip.c b/archival/gzip.c
index 403eb4dcb..0e0b68142 100644
--- a/archival/gzip.c
+++ b/archival/gzip.c
@@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ aa:      85.1% -- replaced with aa.gz
 
 /* ===========================================================================
  */
-#define SMALL_MEM
+#if ENABLE_GZIP_BIG_MEM
+# define BIG_MEM
+#else
+# define SMALL_MEM
+#endif
 
 #ifndef INBUFSIZ
 #  ifdef SMALL_MEM