diff --git a/engine/runtime/src/main/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCache.java b/engine/runtime/src/main/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCache.java
index 2d1c6d02f75c..3db90aeeeebc 100644
--- a/engine/runtime/src/main/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCache.java
+++ b/engine/runtime/src/main/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCache.java
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ protected byte[] serialize(EnsoContext context, CachedModule entry) throws IOExc
           }
         }
       }
-
       var arr = Persistance.writeObject(entry.moduleIR());
       return arr;
     }
diff --git a/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/compiler/CompilerTest.java b/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/compiler/CompilerTest.java
index 7a426deb68ed..b4d3e0850e00 100644
--- a/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/compiler/CompilerTest.java
+++ b/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/compiler/CompilerTest.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ protected static Module parse(String code) throws IOException {
     return ir;
   }
 
-  static void assertIR(String msg, Module old, Module now) throws IOException {
+  public static void assertIR(String msg, Module old, Module now) throws IOException {
     Function<IR, String> filter = f -> simplifyIR(f, true, true, false);
     String ir1 = filter.apply(old);
     String ir2 = filter.apply(now);
diff --git a/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCacheTest.java b/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCacheTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9bdb97db6fe1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/runtime/src/test/java/org/enso/interpreter/caches/ModuleCacheTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package org.enso.interpreter.caches;
+
+import org.enso.compiler.CompilerTest;
+import org.enso.compiler.core.IR;
+import org.enso.interpreter.Constants;
+import org.enso.interpreter.runtime.EnsoContext;
+import org.enso.interpreter.runtime.builtin.Builtins;
+import org.enso.interpreter.test.TestBase;
+import org.enso.interpreter.util.ScalaConversions;
+import org.enso.polyglot.CompilationStage;
+import org.enso.polyglot.LanguageInfo;
+import org.enso.polyglot.MethodNames;
+import org.enso.polyglot.RuntimeOptions;
+import org.graalvm.polyglot.Context;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+
+public class ModuleCacheTest extends TestBase {
+  private static Context ctx;
+
+  public ModuleCacheTest() {
+  }
+
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void initializeContext() throws Exception {
+    ctx = defaultContextBuilder()
+      .option(RuntimeOptions.DISABLE_IR_CACHES, "true")
+      .build();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCompareList() throws Exception {
+    var ensoCtx = (EnsoContext) ctx.getBindings(LanguageInfo.ID).invokeMember(MethodNames.TopScope.LEAK_CONTEXT).asHostObject();
+    var name = "Standard.Base.Data.List";
+
+    var v = ctx.eval("enso", """
+    import Standard.Base.Data.List
+
+    empty = List.List.Nil
+    """).invokeMember(MethodNames.Module.EVAL_EXPRESSION, "empty");
+    assertEquals("List", v.getMetaObject().getMetaSimpleName());
+
+    var option = ensoCtx.findModule(name);
+    assertTrue("Module found", option.isPresent());
+    var module = option.get();
+    var ir = module.getIr().duplicate(true, true, true, true);
+    for (var node : ScalaConversions.asJava(ir.preorder())) {
+      node.passData().prepareForSerialization(ensoCtx.getCompiler().context());
+    }
+    var cm = new ModuleCache.CachedModule(ir, CompilationStage.AFTER_CODEGEN, module.getSource());
+    byte[] arr = module.getCache().serialize(ensoCtx, cm);
+
+    var meta = new ModuleCache.Metadata("hash", "code", CompilationStage.AFTER_CODEGEN.toString());
+    var cachedIr = module.getCache().deserialize(ensoCtx, arr, meta, null);
+    assertNotNull("IR read", cachedIr);
+    CompilerTest.assertIR(name, module.getIr(), cachedIr.moduleIR());
+  }
+}
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