diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4bb493f9b46..83051c53fef 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bdb921afd76..74e9ef57591 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ You can also run integration tests with:
 make integration-tests
 ```
 
+## Benchmarking
+
+Benchmarks can be run with:
+
+```sh
+cargo bench --all
+```
+
 ## Roadmap
 
 Wasmer is an open project guided by strong principles, aiming to be modular, flexible and fast. It is open to the community to help set its direction.
diff --git a/lib/clif-backend/src/module.rs b/lib/clif-backend/src/module.rs
index 38a65762528..07efe9bd3e1 100644
--- a/lib/clif-backend/src/module.rs
+++ b/lib/clif-backend/src/module.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use cranelift_wasm;
 use hashbrown::HashMap;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use wasmer_runtime_core::cache::{Artifact, Error as CacheError, WasmHash};
+use wasmer_runtime_core::cache::{Artifact, Error as CacheError};
 
 use wasmer_runtime_core::{
     backend::Backend,
diff --git a/lib/runtime-core/Cargo.toml b/lib/runtime-core/Cargo.toml
index cb5a6b4b1f3..cd0648613c0 100644
--- a/lib/runtime-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/runtime-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ version = "1.0"
 version = "0.10"
 [dependencies.serde-bench]
 version = "0.0.7"
-[dependencies.sha2]
+[dependencies.meowhash]
+version = "0.1.2"
+[dependencies.digest]
 version = "0.8.0"
 [dependencies.hashbrown]
 version = "0.1"
diff --git a/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs b/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs
index e47a944d37d..4859bd39002 100644
--- a/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs
+++ b/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ use crate::{
     module::{Module, ModuleInfo},
     sys::Memory,
 };
-use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
-use std::{io, mem, slice};
+use digest::Digest;
+use meowhash::MeowHasher;
+use std::{fmt, io, mem, slice};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum InvalidFileType {
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ impl From<io::Error> for Error {
 ///
 /// [`Cache`]: trait.Cache.html
 #[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-pub struct WasmHash([u8; 32]);
+pub struct WasmHash([u8; 32], [u8; 32]);
 
 impl WasmHash {
     /// Hash a wasm module.
@@ -42,19 +43,26 @@ impl WasmHash {
     /// This does no verification that the supplied data
     /// is, in fact, a wasm module.
     pub fn generate(wasm: &[u8]) -> Self {
-        let mut array = [0u8; 32];
-        array.copy_from_slice(Sha256::digest(wasm).as_slice());
-        WasmHash(array)
+        let mut first_part = [0u8; 32];
+        let mut second_part = [0u8; 32];
+        let generic_array = MeowHasher::digest(wasm);
+
+        first_part.copy_from_slice(&generic_array[0..32]);
+        second_part.copy_from_slice(&generic_array[32..64]);
+        WasmHash(first_part, second_part)
     }
 
     /// Create the hexadecimal representation of the
     /// stored hash.
     pub fn encode(self) -> String {
-        hex::encode(self.0)
+        hex::encode(&self.into_array() as &[u8])
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn into_array(self) -> [u8; 32] {
-        self.0
+    pub(crate) fn into_array(self) -> [u8; 64] {
+        let mut total = [0u8; 64];
+        total[0..32].copy_from_slice(&self.0);
+        total[32..64].copy_from_slice(&self.1);
+        total
     }
 }
 
@@ -189,8 +197,8 @@ impl Artifact {
 ///
 /// The `wasmer-runtime` supplies a naive `FileSystemCache` api.
 pub trait Cache {
-    type LoadError;
-    type StoreError;
+    type LoadError: fmt::Debug;
+    type StoreError: fmt::Debug;
 
     fn load(&self, key: WasmHash) -> Result<Module, Self::LoadError>;
     fn store(&mut self, key: WasmHash, module: Module) -> Result<(), Self::StoreError>;
diff --git a/lib/runtime-core/src/module.rs b/lib/runtime-core/src/module.rs
index cac375b66b7..43c9be9dccc 100644
--- a/lib/runtime-core/src/module.rs
+++ b/lib/runtime-core/src/module.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use crate::{
     backend::{Backend, FuncResolver, ProtectedCaller},
-    cache::{Artifact, Error as CacheError, WasmHash},
+    cache::{Artifact, Error as CacheError},
     error,
     import::ImportObject,
     structures::{Map, TypedIndex},
diff --git a/lib/runtime/Cargo.toml b/lib/runtime/Cargo.toml
index e4169a652c6..979fae14002 100644
--- a/lib/runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,5 +20,13 @@ version = "0.1.2"
 path = "../clif-backend"
 version = "0.1.2"
 
+[dev-dependencies]
+tempfile = "3.0.7"
+criterion = "0.2"
+
 [features]
 debug = ["wasmer-clif-backend/debug", "wasmer-runtime-core/debug"]
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "nginx"
+harness = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/runtime/benches/nginx.rs b/lib/runtime/benches/nginx.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1466addb1aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/runtime/benches/nginx.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate criterion;
+use criterion::Criterion;
+use tempfile::tempdir;
+use wasmer_runtime::{
+    cache::{Cache, FileSystemCache, WasmHash},
+    compile, validate,
+};
+
+static NGINX_WASM: &'static [u8] = include_bytes!("../../../examples/nginx/nginx.wasm");
+
+fn compile_module() {
+    compile(NGINX_WASM).unwrap();
+}
+
+fn load_module(hash: WasmHash, cache: &impl Cache) {
+    cache.load(hash).expect("could not load module");
+}
+
+fn hashing_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    c.bench_function("nginx HASH", |b| b.iter(|| WasmHash::generate(NGINX_WASM)));
+}
+
+fn validate_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    c.bench_function("nginx validate", |b| b.iter(|| validate(NGINX_WASM)));
+}
+
+fn compile_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    c.bench_function("nginx compile", |b| b.iter(|| compile_module()));
+}
+
+fn load_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    c.bench_function("nginx load", |b| {
+        let tempdir = tempdir().unwrap();
+        let mut cache = unsafe {
+            FileSystemCache::new(tempdir.path()).expect("unable to create file system cache")
+        };
+        let module = compile(NGINX_WASM).unwrap();
+        let wasm_hash = WasmHash::generate(NGINX_WASM);
+        cache
+            .store(wasm_hash, module)
+            .expect("unable to store into cache");
+
+        b.iter(|| load_module(wasm_hash, &cache))
+    });
+}
+
+criterion_group! {
+    name = benches;
+    config = Criterion::default().sample_size(10);
+    targets = validate_benchmark, hashing_benchmark, compile_benchmark, load_benchmark
+}
+criterion_main!(benches);