------- Comment #3 from ami_stuff at o2 dot pl 2009-08-16 01:28 ------- This slowdown is because of libz. When I use minigzip from libz package to compress data, I get the same slowdown with GCC 4.4.1. Maybe someone will try to fix it?
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40454