wiredtiger/wiredtiger — pull request #1437 by ddanderson (2014-12-04 18:27:11+00:00)
Title: Log compress

These commits implement log compression to address #1359 . This does not currently include an option to checkpoint just the header.

There are some fixes to existing code as well:
-- in block compression, if snappy compress returns a buf larger than the original, we'll use it! https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger/commit/428fa167621a8c64ee40429853f9d9c31f62df34
-- use time.sleep(0), not yield: https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger/commit/9058f6a54b7022d5346622c3656ef874676f5d10

The second fix above now has some txn tests completing that used to return early. It may make the test suite run longer (20% longer for me).