diff --git a/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp b/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
index 58127e2d2949544e35694a828f958831e1f9cc47..bcb518661b9080b617f5d47addadd79b3c5fa53d 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
@@ -2664,25 +2664,6 @@ class CommandLineFlags {
   product(bool, UseStringCache, false,                                      \
           "Enable String cache capabilities on String.java")                \
                                                                             \
-  /* byte strings */                                                        \
-  product(bool, UseCompressedStrings, false,                                \
-          "Enable byte-valued strings")                                     \
-                                                                            \
-  product(bool, SpecialStringCompress, true,                                \
-          "special version of string compress")                             \
-                                                                            \
-  product(bool, SpecialStringInflate, true,                                 \
-          "special version of string inflate")                              \
-                                                                            \
-  product(bool, SpecialStringCompareToCC, true,                             \
-          "special version of string compareToCC")                          \
-                                                                            \
-  product(bool, SpecialStringIndexOfCC, true,                               \
-          "special version of string indexOfCC")                            \
-                                                                            \
-  product(bool, SpecialStringEqualsCC, true,                                \
-          "special version of string equalsCC")                             \
-                                                                            \
   /* statistics */                                                          \
   develop(bool, CountCompiledCalls, false,                                  \
           "counts method invocations")                                      \