diff --git a/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml b/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml
index d7f84efda5..8f687e169a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
         name: Test all features
         with:
+          # we could use `test` but `criterion` is a dev dependency,
+          # and it doesn't build with our MSRV
+          command: check
           # `cli` already enables most features, so let's add the rest,
           # except for `arbitrary`, which requires Rust-1.51
-          command: test
-          args: --workspace --features serialize,deserialize
+          args: --workspace
       - name: Check snapshots
         run: git diff --exit-code -- tests/out
   test:
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 62d306c432..13a385d5d6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ hexf-parse = { version = "0.2.1", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bincode = "1"
-criterion = { version = "0.3", features = ["html_reports"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.3", features = [] }
 diff = "0.1"
 ron = "0.7"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 841f077a82..4622fdbb5d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ all:
 clean:
 	rm *.metal *.air *.metallib *.vert *.frag *.comp *.spv
 
+bench:
+	#rm -Rf target/criterion
+	cargo bench
+
 %.metal: $(SNAPSHOTS_BASE_IN)/%.wgsl $(wildcard src/*.rs src/**/*.rs examples/*.rs)
 	cargo run --features wgsl-in,msl-out -- $< $@