diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2ac84473..7dfe4034 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "home",
  "log",
  "miette",
+ "mimalloc",
  "once_cell",
  "reqwest",
  "scopeguard",
@@ -778,6 +779,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libmimalloc-sys"
+version = "0.1.25"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "11ca136052550448f55df7898c6dbe651c6b574fe38a0d9ea687a9f8088a2e2c"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "libz-ng-sys"
 version = "1.1.8"
@@ -850,6 +860,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mimalloc"
+version = "0.1.29"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2f64ad83c969af2e732e907564deb0d0ed393cec4af80776f77dd77a1a427698"
+dependencies = [
+ "libmimalloc-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "mime"
 version = "0.3.16"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a4fe8f59..3a063dce 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ futures-util = { version = "0.3.21", default-features = false }
 home = "0.5.3"
 log = "0.4.14"
 miette = { version = "5.1.0", features = ["fancy-no-backtrace"] }
+mimalloc = { version = "0.1.29", default-features = false, optional = true }
 once_cell = "1.12.0"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11.11", features = ["rustls-tls", "stream"], default-features = false }
 scopeguard = "1.1.0"
@@ -68,6 +69,10 @@ zstd = { version = "0.10.0", features = ["bindgen", "zstdmt"], default-features
 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows"))'.dependencies]
 guess_host_triple = "0.1.3"
 
+[features]
+default = []
+mimalloc = ["dep:mimalloc"]
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = "0.9.0"
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 506cc478..75bfc1be 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ use cargo_binstall::{
     *,
 };
 
+#[cfg(feature = "mimalloc")]
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: mimalloc::MiMalloc = mimalloc::MiMalloc;
+
 #[derive(Debug, Parser)]
 #[clap(version, about = "Install a Rust binary... from binaries!")]
 struct Options {