diff --git a/src/dict.c b/src/dict.c
index 99a697365ace8b85963392d898ba9bd0ab26a155..01741b50134821ea05706832cb20cbf2f0fbfa40 100644
--- a/src/dict.c
+++ b/src/dict.c
@@ -661,81 +661,6 @@ dictEntry *dictGetRandomKey(dict *d)
     return he;
 }
 
-/* XXX: This is going to be removed soon and SPOP internals
- *      reimplemented.
- *
- * This is a version of dictGetRandomKey() that is modified in order to
- * return multiple entries by jumping at a random place of the hash table
- * and scanning linearly for entries.
- *
- * Returned pointers to hash table entries are stored into 'des' that
- * points to an array of dictEntry pointers. The array must have room for
- * at least 'count' elements, that is the argument we pass to the function
- * to tell how many random elements we need.
- *
- * The function returns the number of items stored into 'des', that may
- * be less than 'count' if the hash table has less than 'count' elements
- * inside.
- *
- * Note that this function is not suitable when you need a good distribution
- * of the returned items, but only when you need to "sample" a given number
- * of continuous elements to run some kind of algorithm or to produce
- * statistics. However the function is much faster than dictGetRandomKey()
- * at producing N elements, and the elements are guaranteed to be non
- * repeating. */
-unsigned int dictGetRandomKeys(dict *d, dictEntry **des, unsigned int count) {
-    unsigned int j; /* internal hash table id, 0 or 1. */
-    unsigned int tables; /* 1 or 2 tables? */
-    unsigned int stored = 0, maxsizemask;
-
-    if (dictSize(d) < count) count = dictSize(d);
-
-    /* Try to do a rehashing work proportional to 'count'. */
-    for (j = 0; j < count; j++) {
-        if (dictIsRehashing(d))
-            _dictRehashStep(d);
-        else
-            break;
-    }
-
-    tables = dictIsRehashing(d) ? 2 : 1;
-    maxsizemask = d->ht[0].sizemask;
-    if (tables > 1 && maxsizemask < d->ht[1].sizemask)
-        maxsizemask = d->ht[1].sizemask;
-
-    /* Pick a random point inside the larger table. */
-    unsigned int i = random() & maxsizemask;
-    while(stored < count) {
-        for (j = 0; j < tables; j++) {
-            /* Invariant of the dict.c rehashing: up to the indexes already
-             * visited in ht[0] during the rehashing, there are no populated
-             * buckets, so we can skip ht[0] for indexes between 0 and idx-1. */
-            if (tables == 2 && j == 0 && i < (unsigned int) d->rehashidx) {
-                /* Moreover, if we are currently out of range in the second
-                 * table, there will be no elements in both tables up to
-                 * the current rehashing index, so we jump if possible.
-                 * (this happens when going from big to small table). */
-                if (i >= d->ht[1].size) i = d->rehashidx;
-                continue;
-            }
-            if (i >= d->ht[j].size) continue; /* Out of range for this table. */
-            dictEntry *he = d->ht[j].table[i];
-            while (he) {
-                /* Collect all the elements of the buckets found non
-                 * empty while iterating. */
-                *des = he;
-                des++;
-                he = he->next;
-                stored++;
-                if (stored == count) return stored;
-            }
-        }
-        i = (i+1) & maxsizemask;
-    }
-    return stored; /* Never reached. */
-}
-
-
 /* This function samples the dictionary to return a few keys from random
  * locations.
  *
diff --git a/src/dict.h b/src/dict.h
index 5959a57b9d5d1ce73dedf2d3cecc252544401887..014d182123f81f4df05f8aab861d09aa8f7fc798 100644
--- a/src/dict.h
+++ b/src/dict.h
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ dictEntry *dictNext(dictIterator *iter);
 void dictReleaseIterator(dictIterator *iter);
 dictEntry *dictGetRandomKey(dict *d);
 unsigned int dictGetSomeKeys(dict *d, dictEntry **des, unsigned int count);
-unsigned int dictGetRandomKeys(dict *d, dictEntry **des, unsigned int count);
 void dictPrintStats(dict *d);
 unsigned int dictGenHashFunction(const void *key, int len);
 unsigned int dictGenCaseHashFunction(const unsigned char *buf, int len);