diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/interpreter/interpreterRuntime.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/interpreter/interpreterRuntime.cpp
index 7d12797007b..dc5f2f5b637 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/interpreter/interpreterRuntime.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/interpreter/interpreterRuntime.cpp
@@ -223,20 +223,6 @@ JRT_ENTRY(void, InterpreterRuntime::_new(JavaThread* current, ConstantPool* pool
   // Make sure klass is initialized
   klass->initialize(CHECK);
 
-  // At this point the class may not be fully initialized
-  // because of recursive initialization. If it is fully
-  // initialized & has_finalized is not set, we rewrite
-  // it into its fast version (Note: no locking is needed
-  // here since this is an atomic byte write and can be
-  // done more than once).
-  //
-  // Note: In case of classes with has_finalized we don't
-  //       rewrite since that saves us an extra check in
-  //       the fast version which then would call the
-  //       slow version anyway (and do a call back into
-  //       Java).
-  //       If we have a breakpoint, then we don't rewrite
-  //       because the _breakpoint bytecode would be lost.
   oop obj = klass->allocate_instance(CHECK);
   current->set_vm_result(obj);
 JRT_END