diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index cd0911a..09184ed 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
   :description "Clojure serialization library"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy"
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"}
-  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure           "1.3.0"]
-                 [org.xerial.snappy/snappy-java "1.0.5-M3"]]
+  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure    "1.3.0"]
+                 [org.iq80.snappy/snappy "0.2"]]
   :profiles {:1.3  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]]}
              :1.4  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.4.0"]]}
              :1.5  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.0-alpha3"]]}
diff --git a/src/taoensso/nippy.clj b/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
index 5f17d41..16b7fb0 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
   (:require [taoensso.nippy.utils :as utils])
   (:import  [java.io DataInputStream DataOutputStream ByteArrayOutputStream
              ByteArrayInputStream]
-            [org.xerial.snappy Snappy]
             [clojure.lang IPersistentList IPersistentVector IPersistentMap
              IPersistentSet PersistentQueue IPersistentCollection Keyword
              BigInt Ratio]))
@@ -165,7 +164,7 @@
         stream (DataOutputStream. ba)]
     (freeze-to-stream! stream x print-dup?)
     (let [ba (.toByteArray ba)]
-      (if compress? (Snappy/compress ba) ba))))
+      (if compress? (utils/compress-bytes ba) ba))))
 
 ;;;; Thawing
 
@@ -243,7 +242,7 @@
   [ba & {:keys [read-eval? compressed?]
          :or   {read-eval?  false ; For `read-string` injection safety - NB!!!
                 compressed? true}}]
-  (-> (if compressed? (Snappy/uncompress ba) ba)
+  (-> (if compressed? (utils/uncompress-bytes ba) ba)
       (ByteArrayInputStream.)
       (DataInputStream.)
       (thaw-from-stream! read-eval?)))
diff --git a/src/taoensso/nippy/benchmarks.clj b/src/taoensso/nippy/benchmarks.clj
index eeed80a..dcc6758 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/nippy/benchmarks.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/nippy/benchmarks.clj
@@ -45,4 +45,10 @@
   (let [frozen (reader-freeze data)]   (count (.getBytes frozen "UTF8")))
   (let [frozen (freeze-to-bytes data)] (count frozen))
   ;; 22788, 12224
+
+  ;;; Snappy implementations
+  (println (bench (roundtrip data)))
+  ;;                No Snappy: 6163 6064 6042 6176
+  ;;               Snappy JNI: 6489 6446 6542 6412
+  ;; Snappy native array copy: 6569 6419 6414 6590
   )
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diff --git a/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj b/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj
index 17be404..7df1b64 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/nippy/utils.clj
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 (ns taoensso.nippy.utils
   {:author "Peter Taoussanis"}
-  (:require [clojure.string :as str]))
+  (:require [clojure.string :as str])
+  (:import  org.iq80.snappy.Snappy))
 
 (defmacro case-eval
   "Like `case` but evaluates test constants for their compile-time value."
@@ -55,4 +56,15 @@
 (defn version-sufficient?
   [version-str min-version-str]
   (try (>= (version-compare version-str min-version-str) 0)
-       (catch Exception _ false)))
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+       (catch Exception _ false)))
+
+;; TODO Unnecessarily complicated. Waiting on http://goo.gl/7mbR3 merge.
+(defn compress-bytes [ba]
+  (let [ba-size     (alength ^bytes ba)
+        ba-out      (byte-array (Snappy/maxCompressedLength ba-size))
+        ba-out-size (Snappy/compress ba (int 0) (int ba-size) ba-out (int 0))]
+    (java.util.Arrays/copyOf ba-out ba-out-size)))
+
+(defn uncompress-bytes [ba] (Snappy/uncompress ba 0 (alength ^bytes ba)))
+
+(comment (String. (uncompress-bytes (compress-bytes (.getBytes "Test")))))
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