diff --git a/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodes.cpp b/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodes.cpp
index cb2a7ecb2344358767fc3a72a5b3151a38e9d13c..1a270e786447baa580c5030c59f704d8fa565cee 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodes.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodes.cpp
@@ -26,11 +26,13 @@
 #include "incls/_bytecodes.cpp.incl"
 
 
+#if defined(WIN32) && (defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER < 1600))
 // Windows AMD64 Compiler Hangs compiling this file
 // unless optimization is off
 #ifdef _M_AMD64
 #pragma optimize ("", off)
 #endif
+#endif
 
 
 bool            Bytecodes::_is_initialized = false;