highlight: Avoid making unnecessary allocation

highlight: Avoid making unnecessary allocation

Avoid creating a local copy of the highlight configuration when no
options are passed.

Benchmarks of building the docs site:

name        old time/op    new time/op    delta
DocsSite-2     1.94s ± 4%     1.93s ± 4%    ~     (p=0.841 n=5+5)

name        old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
DocsSite-2     666MB ± 1%     656MB ± 0%  -1.48%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name        old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
DocsSite-2     8.85M ± 0%     8.76M ± 0%  -1.04%  (p=0.029 n=4+4)