diff --git a/benchmark/benchmark.hs b/benchmark/benchmark.hs
--- a/benchmark/benchmark.hs
+++ b/benchmark/benchmark.hs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import qualified Data.Map as Map
 import Data.Text (Text)
 import qualified Data.Text as Text
-import Skylighting
+import Skylighting.Core
 import System.FilePath
 -- import System.Directory
 
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
   -- xmlfiles <- filter (\x -> takeExtension x == ".xml") <$>
   --                getDirectoryContents "xml"
   let xmlfiles = ["haskell.xml"]
+  Right syntaxmap <- loadSyntaxesFromDir "xml"
   defaultMainWith defaultConfig{ timeLimit = 10.0 }
-    $ parseBench xmlfiles : map testBench cases
+    $ parseBench xmlfiles : map (testBench syntaxmap) cases
 
 parseBench :: [String] -> Benchmark
 parseBench xmls =
@@ -33,13 +34,13 @@
                 Left e  -> error e
                 Right r -> return r
 
-testBench :: (Text, Text) -> Benchmark
-testBench (format, contents) =
+testBench :: SyntaxMap -> (Text, Text) -> Benchmark
+testBench syntaxmap (format, contents) =
   bench (Text.unpack format) $ nf
     (sum . map length . either (error "tokenize failed") id .
      tokenize TokenizerConfig{ traceOutput = False
-                             , syntaxMap = defaultSyntaxMap } syntax) contents
+                             , syntaxMap = syntaxmap } syntax) contents
 
   where syntax = maybe (error "could not find syntax") id
-                       (lookupSyntax format defaultSyntaxMap)
+                       (lookupSyntax format syntaxmap)
 
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Revision history for skylighting-core
 
+## 0.7.1 -- 2018-03-15
+
+  * Fix benchmarks, which previously depended on a module
+    defined in skylighting (#42).
+  * Export Skylighting.Loader from Skylighting.Core.
+  * Bump version bound for criterion.
+
 ## 0.7.0.2 -- 2018-03-06
 
   * Ensure that regex captures are not overwritten by regexes
diff --git a/skylighting-core.cabal b/skylighting-core.cabal
--- a/skylighting-core.cabal
+++ b/skylighting-core.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                skylighting-core
-version:             0.7.0.2
+version:             0.7.1
 synopsis:            syntax highlighting library
 description:         Skylighting is a syntax highlighting library.
                      It derives its tokenizers from XML syntax
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
                    text,
                    containers,
                    directory,
-                   criterion >= 1.0 && < 1.4
+                   criterion >= 1.0 && < 1.5
   Ghc-Options:   -rtsopts -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind
   Default-Language: Haskell2010
 
diff --git a/src/Skylighting/Core.hs b/src/Skylighting/Core.hs
--- a/src/Skylighting/Core.hs
+++ b/src/Skylighting/Core.hs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   , module Skylighting.Parser
   , module Skylighting.Regex
   , module Skylighting.Styles
+  , module Skylighting.Loader
   , module Skylighting.Format.ANSI
   , module Skylighting.Format.HTML
   , module Skylighting.Format.LaTeX
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
 import Skylighting.Format.ANSI
 import Skylighting.Format.HTML
 import Skylighting.Format.LaTeX
+import Skylighting.Loader
 import Skylighting.Parser
 import Skylighting.Regex
 import Skylighting.Styles