diff --git a/src/Distributed.jl b/src/Distributed.jl
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@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license
 
-__precompile__(true)
-
 """
 Tools for distributed parallel processing.
 """