diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9cfe08d7b..49ba45356 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -144,9 +144,6 @@ option(LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER                    "llama: build server example"
 option(LLAMA_LASX                            "llama: enable lasx"                               ON)
 option(LLAMA_LSX                             "llama: enable lsx"                                ON)
 
-# add perf arguments
-option(LLAMA_PERF                            "llama: enable perf"                               OFF)
-
 # Required for relocatable CMake package
 include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/build-info.cmake)
 
@@ -870,10 +867,6 @@ if (LLAMA_CPU_HBM)
     target_link_libraries(ggml PUBLIC memkind)
 endif()
 
-if (LLAMA_PERF)
-    add_compile_definitions(GGML_PERF)
-endif()
-
 function(get_flags CCID CCVER)
     set(C_FLAGS "")
     set(CXX_FLAGS "")
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4ea59c0b4..3aad77394 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -344,9 +344,6 @@ ifdef LLAMA_GPROF
 	MK_CFLAGS   += -pg
 	MK_CXXFLAGS += -pg
 endif
-ifdef LLAMA_PERF
-	MK_CPPFLAGS += -DGGML_PERF
-endif
 
 # Architecture specific
 # TODO: probably these flags need to be tweaked on some architectures
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index a05a52b42..ca98aef80 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -12551,12 +12551,6 @@ static int llama_decode_internal(
             }
         }
 
-#ifdef GGML_PERF
-        // print timing information per ggml operation (for debugging purposes)
-        // requires GGML_PERF to be defined
-        ggml_graph_print(gf);
-#endif
-
         // plot the computation graph in dot format (for debugging purposes)
         //if (n_past%100 == 0) {
         //    ggml_graph_dump_dot(gf, NULL, "llama.dot");