diff --git a/faiss/utils/partitioning.cpp b/faiss/utils/partitioning.cpp
index 5edfd6feb6..8d4ee94fb4 100644
--- a/faiss/utils/partitioning.cpp
+++ b/faiss/utils/partitioning.cpp
@@ -750,8 +750,6 @@ typename C::T partition_fuzzy(
         size_t q_min,
         size_t q_max,
         size_t* q_out) {
-    // the code below compiles and runs without AVX2 but it's slower than
-    // the scalar implementation
 #ifdef __AVX2__
     constexpr bool is_uint16 = std::is_same<typename C::T, uint16_t>::value;
     if (is_uint16 && is_aligned_pointer(vals)) {