diff --git a/src/test/bench/task-perf-vector-party.rs b/src/test/bench/task-perf-vector-party.rs
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index ecebd119722..00000000000
--- a/src/test/bench/task-perf-vector-party.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-// Vectors are allocated in the Rust kernel's memory region, use of
-// which requires some amount of synchronization. This test exercises
-// that synchronization by spawning a number of tasks and then
-// allocating and freeing vectors.
-
-fn f(&&n: uint) {
-    for uint::range(0u, n) {|i|
-        let mut v: [u8] = [];
-        vec::reserve(v, 1000u);
-    }
-}
-
-fn main(args: [str]) {
-    let args = if os::getenv("RUST_BENCH").is_some() {
-        ["", "50000"]
-    } else if args.len() <= 1u {
-        ["", "100"]
-    } else {
-        args
-    };
-    let n = uint::from_str(args[1]).get();
-    for uint::range(0u, 100u) {|i| task::spawn {|| f(n); };}
-}