diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1a33d583..a0c1c27f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -25,4 +25,6 @@ script:
   # default features are required for examples to build - so remove them from sight.
   # Doc-tests may also use default features
   - rm -Rf examples && cargo test --lib --no-default-features
+  # Test the build configuration that Xi uses
+  - cargo test --lib --no-default-features --features "assets dump-load-rs"
 after_success: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trishume/syntect/master/scripts/travis-doc-upload.sh | sh
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a26447d7..168716cf 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ regex-syntax = { version = "^0.4", optional = true }
 lazy_static = "^0.2"
 bitflags = "^0.8"
 plist = "0.2"
-bincode = "0.8"
-flate2 = "^0.2"
+bincode = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
+flate2 = { version = "^0.2", optional = true }
+libflate = { version = "0.1.8", optional = true }
 fnv = { version = "^1.0", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["rc"] }
 serde_derive = "1.0"
@@ -33,12 +34,28 @@ regex = "0.2.1"
 getopts = "0.2"
 
 [features]
+
+# If you enable two dump loading features or two creation features the build
+# will fail, choose one of each. If you are using both creation and loading,
+# your binary will be smaller if you choose the same one for each.
+
+# Pure Rust dump loading, slower than regular `dump-load`
+dump-load-rs = ["libflate", "bincode"]
+# Dump loading using flate2, which depends on the miniz C library.
+dump-load = ["flate2", "bincode"]
+# Dump creation using flate2, which depends on the miniz C library.
+dump-create = ["flate2", "bincode"]
+# Pure Rust dump creation, worse compressor so produces larger dumps than dump-create
+dump-create-rs = ["libflate", "bincode"]
+
 static-onig = ["onig/static-libonig"]
 parsing = ["onig", "regex-syntax", "fnv"]
+# The `assets` feature enables inclusion of the default theme and syntax packages.
+# For `assets` to do anything, it requires one of `dump-load-rs` or `dump-load` to be set.
 assets = []
 html = ["parsing", "assets"]
-yaml-load = ["yaml-rust"]
-default = ["parsing", "assets", "html", "yaml-load"]
+yaml-load = ["yaml-rust", "parsing"]
+default = ["parsing", "assets", "html", "yaml-load", "dump-load", "dump-create"]
 
 # [profile.release]
 # debug = true
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
index d00992bd..7ddbcce5 100644
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2016 Tristan Hume
+Copyright (c) 2017 Tristan Hume, Keith Hall, Google Inc and other contributors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/src/dumps.rs b/src/dumps.rs
index 2780a543..76e4e863 100644
--- a/src/dumps.rs
+++ b/src/dumps.rs
@@ -7,55 +7,95 @@
 //! You can use these methods to manage your own caching of compiled syntaxes and
 //! themes. And even your own `serde::Serialize` structures if you want to
 //! be consistent with your format.
-use bincode::{ErrorKind, Infinite, Result, deserialize_from, serialize_into};
+use bincode::{ErrorKind, Infinite, Result};
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs"))]
+use bincode::deserialize_from;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
+use bincode::serialize_into;
 use std::fs::File;
-use std::io::{BufReader, BufWriter};
-#[cfg(all(feature = "parsing", feature = "assets"))]
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs"))]
+use std::io::{BufReader, Read};
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
+use std::io::{BufWriter, Write};
+#[cfg(all(feature = "parsing", feature = "assets", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
 use parsing::SyntaxSet;
-#[cfg(feature = "assets")]
+#[cfg(all(feature = "assets", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
 use highlighting::ThemeSet;
 use std::path::Path;
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-create")]
 use flate2::write::ZlibEncoder;
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-load")]
 use flate2::read::ZlibDecoder;
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-create")]
 use flate2::Compression;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
 use serde::Serialize;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs"))]
 use serde::de::DeserializeOwned;
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-load-rs")]
+use libflate::zlib::Decoder;
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-create-rs")]
+use libflate::zlib::Encoder;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-create")]
+pub fn dump_to_writer<T: Serialize, W: Write>(to_dump: &T, output: W) -> Result<()> {
+    let mut encoder = ZlibEncoder::new(output, Compression::Best);
+    serialize_into(&mut encoder, to_dump, Infinite)
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-create-rs")]
+pub fn dump_to_writer<T: Serialize, W: Write>(to_dump: &T, output: W) -> Result<()> {
+    let mut encoder = Encoder::new(output)?;
+    serialize_into(&mut encoder, to_dump, Infinite)?;
+    encoder.finish().into_result()?;
+    Ok(())
+}
 
 /// Dumps an object to a binary array in the same format as `dump_to_file`
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
 pub fn dump_binary<T: Serialize>(o: &T) -> Vec<u8> {
     let mut v = Vec::new();
-    {
-        let mut encoder = ZlibEncoder::new(&mut v, Compression::Best);
-        serialize_into(&mut encoder, o, Infinite).unwrap();
-    }
+    dump_to_writer(o, &mut v).unwrap();
     v
 }
 
 /// Dumps an encodable object to a file at a given path. If a file already exists at that path
 /// it will be overwritten. The files created are encoded with the `bincode` crate and then
 /// compressed with the `flate2` crate.
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
 pub fn dump_to_file<T: Serialize, P: AsRef<Path>>(o: &T, path: P) -> Result<()> {
-    let f = BufWriter::new(try!(File::create(path).map_err(ErrorKind::IoError)));
-    let mut encoder = ZlibEncoder::new(f, Compression::Best);
-    serialize_into(&mut encoder, o, Infinite)
+    let out = BufWriter::new(try!(File::create(path).map_err(ErrorKind::IoError)));
+    dump_to_writer(o, out)
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-load")]
+pub fn from_reader<T: DeserializeOwned, R: Read>(input: R) -> Result<T> {
+    let mut decoder = ZlibDecoder::new(input);
+    deserialize_from(&mut decoder, Infinite)
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "dump-load-rs")]
+pub fn from_reader<T: DeserializeOwned, R: Read>(input: R) -> Result<T> {
+    let mut decoder: Decoder<R> = try!(Decoder::new(input));
+    deserialize_from(&mut decoder, Infinite)
 }
 
 /// Returns a fully loaded syntax set from
 /// a binary dump. Panics if the dump is invalid.
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs"))]
 pub fn from_binary<T: DeserializeOwned>(v: &[u8]) -> T {
-    let mut decoder = ZlibDecoder::new(v);
-    deserialize_from(&mut decoder, Infinite).unwrap()
+    from_reader(v).unwrap()
 }
 
-/// Returns a fully loaded syntax set from
-/// a binary dump file.
+/// Returns a fully loaded syntax set from a binary dump file.
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs"))]
 pub fn from_dump_file<T: DeserializeOwned, P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> Result<T> {
     let f = try!(File::open(path).map_err(ErrorKind::IoError));
-    let mut decoder = ZlibDecoder::new(BufReader::new(f));
-    deserialize_from(&mut decoder, Infinite)
+    let reader = BufReader::new(f);
+    from_reader(reader)
 }
 
-#[cfg(all(feature = "parsing", feature = "assets"))]
+#[cfg(all(feature = "parsing", feature = "assets", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
 impl SyntaxSet {
     /// Instantiates a new syntax set from a binary dump of
     /// Sublime Text's default open source syntax definitions and then links it.
@@ -89,7 +129,7 @@ impl SyntaxSet {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(feature = "assets")]
+#[cfg(all(feature = "assets", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
 impl ThemeSet {
     /// Loads the set of default themes
     /// Currently includes (these are the keys for the map):
@@ -104,7 +144,7 @@ impl ThemeSet {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    #[cfg(feature = "yaml-load")]
+    #[cfg(all(feature = "yaml-load", any(feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"), any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
     #[test]
     fn can_dump_and_load() {
         use super::*;
@@ -113,12 +153,13 @@ mod tests {
         ps.load_syntaxes("testdata/Packages", false).unwrap();
 
         let bin = dump_binary(&ps);
+        println!("{:?}", bin.len());
         let ps2: SyntaxSet = from_binary(&bin[..]);
         assert_eq!(ps.syntaxes().len(), ps2.syntaxes().len());
 
     }
-    
-    #[cfg(feature = "assets")]
+
+    #[cfg(all(feature = "assets", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
     #[test]
     fn has_default_themes() {
         use highlighting::ThemeSet;
diff --git a/src/easy.rs b/src/easy.rs
index 999f0f21..0aa1fb8b 100644
--- a/src/easy.rs
+++ b/src/easy.rs
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ impl<'a> Iterator for ScopeRegionIterator<'a> {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(feature = "assets")]
+#[cfg(all(feature = "assets", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
diff --git a/src/highlighting/highlighter.rs b/src/highlighting/highlighter.rs
index a8f271cc..a59f97c0 100644
--- a/src/highlighting/highlighter.rs
+++ b/src/highlighting/highlighter.rs
@@ -271,13 +271,13 @@ impl<'a> Highlighter<'a> {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(feature = "assets")]
+#[cfg(all(feature = "assets", feature = "parsing", any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-load-rs")))]
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use highlighting::{ThemeSet, Style, Color, FontStyle};
     use parsing::{ SyntaxSet, ScopeStack, ParseState};
-    
+
     #[test]
     fn can_parse() {
         let ps = SyntaxSet::load_from_folder("testdata/Packages").unwrap();
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 161248e7..b4d80612 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -24,10 +24,14 @@ extern crate regex_syntax;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate lazy_static;
 extern crate plist;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load-rs", feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-create"))]
 extern crate bincode;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate bitflags;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-create"))]
 extern crate flate2;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load-rs", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
+extern crate libflate;
 #[cfg(feature = "parsing")]
 extern crate fnv;
 extern crate serde;
@@ -37,6 +41,7 @@ extern crate serde_json;
 pub mod highlighting;
 pub mod parsing;
 pub mod util;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "dump-load-rs", feature = "dump-load", feature = "dump-create", feature = "dump-create-rs"))]
 pub mod dumps;
 #[cfg(feature = "parsing")]
 pub mod easy;