diff --git a/ext/liquid_c/block.c b/ext/liquid_c/block.c
index 9ce95888..5eab0835 100644
--- a/ext/liquid_c/block.c
+++ b/ext/liquid_c/block.c
@@ -515,6 +515,16 @@ static VALUE block_body_disassemble(VALUE self)
                                     document_body_get_constants_ptr(entry), (const VALUE *)body->tags.data);
 }
 
+static VALUE block_body_dump(VALUE self)
+{
+    block_body_t *body;
+    BlockBody_Get_Struct(self, body);
+    ensure_body_compiled(body);
+
+    return document_body_dump(body->as.compiled.document_body_entry.body,
+                              (uint32_t)body->as.compiled.document_body_entry.buffer_offset);
+}
+
 
 static VALUE block_body_add_evaluate_expression(VALUE self, VALUE expression)
 {
@@ -604,6 +614,7 @@ void liquid_define_block_body()
     rb_define_method(cLiquidCBlockBody, "blank?", block_body_blank_p, 0);
     rb_define_method(cLiquidCBlockBody, "nodelist", block_body_nodelist, 0);
     rb_define_method(cLiquidCBlockBody, "disassemble", block_body_disassemble, 0);
+    rb_define_method(cLiquidCBlockBody, "dump", block_body_dump, 0);
 
     rb_define_method(cLiquidCBlockBody, "add_evaluate_expression", block_body_add_evaluate_expression, 1);
     rb_define_method(cLiquidCBlockBody, "add_find_variable", block_body_add_find_variable, 1);
diff --git a/ext/liquid_c/document_body.c b/ext/liquid_c/document_body.c
index 922920bc..74648160 100644
--- a/ext/liquid_c/document_body.c
+++ b/ext/liquid_c/document_body.c
@@ -132,6 +132,35 @@ void document_body_write_block_body(VALUE self, bool blank, uint32_t render_scor
     }
 }
 
+
+VALUE document_body_dump(document_body_t *body, uint32_t entrypoint_block_offset)
+{
+    assert(BUILTIN_TYPE(body->constants) == T_ARRAY);
+
+    uint32_t buffer_len = (uint32_t)c_buffer_size(&body->buffer);
+
+    VALUE constants = rb_marshal_dump(body->constants, Qnil);
+    uint32_t constants_len = (uint32_t)RSTRING_LEN(constants);
+
+    VALUE str = rb_str_buf_new(sizeof(document_body_header_t) + buffer_len + constants_len);
+
+    document_body_header_t header = {
+        .version = DOCUMENT_BODY_CURRENT_VERSION,
+        .entrypoint_block_offset = entrypoint_block_offset,
+        .buffer_offset = sizeof(document_body_header_t),
+        .buffer_len = buffer_len,
+        .constants_offset = sizeof(document_body_header_t) + buffer_len,
+        .constants_len = constants_len
+    };
+
+    rb_str_cat(str, (const char *)&header, sizeof(document_body_header_t));
+    rb_str_cat(str, (const char *)body->buffer.data, buffer_len);
+    rb_str_append(str, constants);
+
+    return str;
+}
+
+
 void liquid_define_document_body()
 {
     cLiquidCDocumentBody = rb_define_class_under(mLiquidC, "DocumentBody", rb_cObject);
diff --git a/ext/liquid_c/document_body.h b/ext/liquid_c/document_body.h
index c4923cc2..7dcf43ed 100644
--- a/ext/liquid_c/document_body.h
+++ b/ext/liquid_c/document_body.h
@@ -26,6 +26,19 @@ typedef struct document_body {
     c_buffer_t buffer;
 } document_body_t;
 
+/* Bump this version every time a backwards incompatible change has been made in the serialization headers.
+ */
+#define DOCUMENT_BODY_CURRENT_VERSION 0
+
+typedef struct document_body_header {
+    uint32_t version;
+    uint32_t entrypoint_block_offset;
+    uint32_t buffer_offset;
+    uint32_t buffer_len;
+    uint32_t constants_offset;
+    uint32_t constants_len;
+} document_body_header_t;
+
 typedef struct document_body_entry {
     document_body_t *body;
     size_t buffer_offset;
@@ -34,6 +47,7 @@ typedef struct document_body_entry {
 void liquid_define_document_body();
 VALUE document_body_new_instance();
 void document_body_write_block_body(VALUE self, bool blank, uint32_t render_score, vm_assembler_t *code, document_body_entry_t *entry);
+VALUE document_body_dump(document_body_t *body, uint32_t entrypoint_block_offset);
 
 static inline void document_body_entry_mark(document_body_entry_t *entry)
 {
diff --git a/ext/liquid_c/extconf.rb b/ext/liquid_c/extconf.rb
index 6d823c9b..b860a7bc 100644
--- a/ext/liquid_c/extconf.rb
+++ b/ext/liquid_c/extconf.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 require 'mkmf'
+
+# if system endianness == network endianness (big endian)
+if [1].pack('I') == [1].pack('N')
+  raise 'System incompatible with liquid-c, only little endian systems supported'
+end
+
 $CFLAGS << ' -std=c11 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers'
 append_cflags('-fvisibility=hidden')
 # In Ruby 2.6 and earlier, the Ruby headers did not have struct timespec defined
diff --git a/lib/liquid/c.rb b/lib/liquid/c.rb
index d315612e..0f670732 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/c.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/c.rb
@@ -109,6 +109,18 @@ def parse(tokenizer, parse_context)
   end
 end
 
+Liquid::Template.class_eval do
+  def dump
+    @root.dump
+  end
+end
+
+Liquid::Document.class_eval do
+  def dump
+    @body.dump
+  end
+end
+
 Liquid::Variable.class_eval do
   class << self
     # @api private