diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index 3a94db3..2b5569d 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
     clean: {
       test: ['tmp']
     },
+    
+    copy: {
+      gzipSrcEqualDest: {
+        files: [{
+            expand : true,
+            cwd    : 'test/fixtures',
+            src    : '**/*.js',
+            dest   : 'tmp/gzipSrcEqualDest'
+        }]
+      }
+    },
 
     // Configuration to be run (and then tested).
     compress: {
@@ -72,6 +83,14 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
           {expand: true, cwd: 'test/fixtures', src: ['**/*.js'], dest: 'tmp/gzipCustomExt/', ext: '.gz.js'}
         ]
       },
+      gzipSrcEqualDest: {
+        options: {
+          mode: 'gzip'
+        },
+        files: [
+          {expand: true, cwd: 'tmp/gzipSrcEqualDest', src: ['**/*.js'], dest: 'tmp/gzipSrcEqualDest/', ext: '.js'}
+        ]
+      },
       gzip: {
         expand: true,
         cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
@@ -122,12 +141,13 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   // These plugins provide necessary tasks.
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-nodeunit');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-internal');
 
   // Whenever the "test" task is run, first clean the "tmp" dir, then run this
   // plugin's task(s), then test the result.
-  grunt.registerTask('test', ['jshint', 'clean', 'compress', 'nodeunit']);
+  grunt.registerTask('test', ['jshint', 'clean', 'copy', 'compress', 'nodeunit']);
 
   // By default, lint and run all tests.
   grunt.registerTask('default', ['test', 'build-contrib']);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6b4d90b..4f511a0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "archiver": "^0.21.0",
     "chalk": "^1.1.1",
-    "pretty-bytes": "^3.0.1"
+    "pretty-bytes": "^3.0.1",
+    "stream-buffers": "^2.1.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "grunt": "^0.4.5",
     "grunt-cli": "^0.1.13",
     "grunt-contrib-clean": "^1.0.0",
+    "grunt-contrib-copy": "^0.7.0",
     "grunt-contrib-internal": "^0.4.2",
     "grunt-contrib-jshint": "^0.11.0",
     "grunt-contrib-nodeunit": "^0.4.1",
diff --git a/tasks/lib/compress.js b/tasks/lib/compress.js
index eeb5c80..4f6abbb 100644
--- a/tasks/lib/compress.js
+++ b/tasks/lib/compress.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ var prettyBytes = require('pretty-bytes');
 var chalk = require('chalk');
 var zlib = require('zlib');
 var archiver = require('archiver');
+var streamBuffers = require('stream-buffers');
 
 module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
@@ -65,7 +66,35 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         grunt.file.mkdir(path.dirname(filePair.dest));
 
         var srcStream = fs.createReadStream(src);
-        var destStream = fs.createWriteStream(filePair.dest);
+        var originalSize = exports.getSize(src);
+
+        var destStream;
+        function init_destStream() {
+          destStream = fs.createWriteStream(filePair.dest);
+
+          destStream.on('close', function() {
+            var compressedSize = exports.getSize(filePair.dest);
+            var ratio = Math.round(parseInt(compressedSize) / parseInt(originalSize) * 100) + '%';
+
+            grunt.log.writeln('Created ' + chalk.cyan(filePair.dest) + ' (' + compressedSize + ') - ' + chalk.cyan(ratio) + ' of the original size');
+            nextFile();
+          });
+        }
+
+        // write to memory stream if source and destination are the same
+        var tmpStream;
+        if (src === filePair.dest) {
+          tmpStream = new streamBuffers.WritableStreamBuffer();
+          tmpStream.on('close', function() {
+            init_destStream();
+
+            destStream.write(this.getContents());
+            destStream.end();
+          });
+        } else {
+          init_destStream();
+        }
+
         var compressor = algorithm.call(zlib, exports.options);
 
         compressor.on('error', function(err) {
@@ -74,16 +103,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
           nextFile();
         });
 
-        destStream.on('close', function() {
-          var originalSize = exports.getSize(src);
-          var compressedSize = exports.getSize(filePair.dest);
-          var ratio = Math.round(parseInt(compressedSize, 10) / parseInt(originalSize, 10) * 100) + '%';
-
-          grunt.verbose.writeln('Created ' + chalk.cyan(filePair.dest) + ' (' + compressedSize + ') - ' + chalk.cyan(ratio) + ' of the original size');
-          nextFile();
-        });
-
-        srcStream.pipe(compressor).pipe(destStream);
+        srcStream.pipe(compressor).pipe(tmpStream || destStream);
       }, nextPair);
     }, done);
   };
diff --git a/test/compress_test.js b/test/compress_test.js
index 3d49bb1..d254606 100644
--- a/test/compress_test.js
+++ b/test/compress_test.js
@@ -122,6 +122,26 @@ exports.compress = {
     });
     test.done();
   },
+  gzipSrcEqualDest: function(test) {
+    test.expect(3);
+    grunt.util.async.forEachSeries([
+      'test.js',
+      path.join('folder_one', 'one.js'),
+      path.join('folder_two', 'two.js'),
+    ], function(file, next) {
+      var expected = grunt.file.read(path.join('test', 'fixtures', file));
+      var actual = '';
+      fs.createReadStream(path.join('tmp', 'gzipSrcEqualDest', file))
+        .pipe(zlib.createGunzip())
+        .on('data', function(buf) {
+          actual += buf.toString();
+        })
+        .on('end', function() {
+          test.equal(actual, expected, 'should be equal to fixture after gunzipping');
+          next();
+        });
+    }, test.done);
+  },
   deflate: function(test) {
     test.expect(3);
     grunt.util.async.forEachSeries([