diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 0a561f1..c16fe87 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -563,8 +563,7 @@
 
 * Serializing and unserializing data using the :mod:`pickle` module is now
   several times faster. (Contributed by Alexandre Vassalotti, Antoine Pitrou
-  and the Unladen Swallow team in :issue:`9410`, :issue:`3873` and
-  :issue:`9935`.)
+  and the Unladen Swallow team in :issue:`9410` and :issue:`3873`.)
 
 
 Filenames and Unicode
diff --git a/Lib/test/pickletester.py b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
index e21d490..7645b54 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pickletester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import pickle
 import pickletools
 import copyreg
-import weakref
 from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
 
 from test.support import TestFailed, TESTFN, run_with_locale
@@ -843,25 +842,6 @@
                 self.assertEqual(B(x), B(y), detail)
                 self.assertEqual(x.__dict__, y.__dict__, detail)
 
-    def test_newobj_proxies(self):
-        # NEWOBJ should use the __class__ rather than the raw type
-        classes = myclasses[:]
-        # Cannot create weakproxies to these classes
-        for c in (MyInt, MyTuple):
-            classes.remove(c)
-        for proto in protocols:
-            for C in classes:
-                B = C.__base__
-                x = C(C.sample)
-                x.foo = 42
-                p = weakref.proxy(x)
-                s = self.dumps(p, proto)
-                y = self.loads(s)
-                self.assertEqual(type(y), type(x))  # rather than type(p)
-                detail = (proto, C, B, x, y, type(y))
-                self.assertEqual(B(x), B(y), detail)
-                self.assertEqual(x.__dict__, y.__dict__, detail)
-
     # Register a type with copyreg, with extension code extcode.  Pickle
     # an object of that type.  Check that the resulting pickle uses opcode
     # (EXT[124]) under proto 2, and not in proto 1.
@@ -1028,6 +1008,7 @@
             self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, self.dumps, x, proto)
         # protocol 2 don't raise a RuntimeError.
         d = self.dumps(x, 2)
+        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, self.loads, d)
 
     def test_reduce_bad_iterator(self):
         # Issue4176: crash when 4th and 5th items of __reduce__()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e47c0f3..9aa0708 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
-
 - Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket``
   in order to support the TLS SNI extension.  ``HTTPSConnection`` and
   ``urlopen()`` also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now
diff --git a/Modules/_pickle.c b/Modules/_pickle.c
index fca9f2c..e2d6406 100644
--- a/Modules/_pickle.c
+++ b/Modules/_pickle.c
@@ -2840,28 +2840,6 @@
     return status;
 }
 
-static PyObject *
-get_class(PyObject *obj)
-{
-    PyObject *cls;
-    static PyObject *str_class;
-
-    if (str_class == NULL) {
-        str_class = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__class__");
-        if (str_class == NULL)
-            return NULL;
-    }
-    cls = PyObject_GetAttr(obj, str_class);
-    if (cls == NULL) {
-        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_AttributeError)) {
-            PyErr_Clear();
-            cls = (PyObject *) Py_TYPE(obj);
-            Py_INCREF(cls);
-        }
-    }
-    return cls;
-}
-
 /* We're saving obj, and args is the 2-thru-5 tuple returned by the
  * appropriate __reduce__ method for obj.
  */
@@ -2927,18 +2905,17 @@
     /* Protocol 2 special case: if callable's name is __newobj__, use
        NEWOBJ. */
     if (use_newobj) {
-        static PyObject *newobj_str = NULL, *name_str = NULL;
-        PyObject *name;
+        static PyObject *newobj_str = NULL;
+        PyObject *name_str;
 
         if (newobj_str == NULL) {
             newobj_str = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__newobj__");
-            name_str = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__name__");
-            if (newobj_str == NULL || name_str == NULL)
+            if (newobj_str == NULL)
                 return -1;
         }
 
-        name = PyObject_GetAttr(callable, name_str);
-        if (name == NULL) {
+        name_str = PyObject_GetAttrString(callable, "__name__");
+        if (name_str == NULL) {
             if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_AttributeError))
                 PyErr_Clear();
             else
@@ -2946,9 +2923,9 @@
             use_newobj = 0;
         }
         else {
-            use_newobj = PyUnicode_Check(name) &&
-                         PyUnicode_Compare(name, newobj_str) == 0;
-            Py_DECREF(name);
+            use_newobj = PyUnicode_Check(name_str) && 
+                PyUnicode_Compare(name_str, newobj_str) == 0;
+            Py_DECREF(name_str);
         }
     }
     if (use_newobj) {
@@ -2964,14 +2941,20 @@
         }
 
         cls = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(argtup, 0);
-        if (!PyType_Check(cls)) {
+        if (!PyObject_HasAttrString(cls, "__new__")) {
             PyErr_SetString(PicklingError, "args[0] from "
-                            "__newobj__ args is not a type");
+                            "__newobj__ args has no __new__");
             return -1;
         }
 
         if (obj != NULL) {
-            obj_class = get_class(obj);
+            obj_class = PyObject_GetAttrString(obj, "__class__");
+            if (obj_class == NULL) {
+                if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_AttributeError))
+                    PyErr_Clear();
+                else
+                    return -1;
+            }
             p = obj_class != cls;    /* true iff a problem */
             Py_DECREF(obj_class);
             if (p) {
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 5302a73..2c1bf88 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -3010,19 +3010,14 @@
 import_copyreg(void)
 {
     static PyObject *copyreg_str;
-    static PyObject *mod_copyreg = NULL;
 
     if (!copyreg_str) {
         copyreg_str = PyUnicode_InternFromString("copyreg");
         if (copyreg_str == NULL)
             return NULL;
     }
-    if (!mod_copyreg) {
-        mod_copyreg = PyImport_Import(copyreg_str);
-    }
 
-    Py_XINCREF(mod_copyreg);
-    return mod_copyreg;
+    return PyImport_Import(copyreg_str);
 }
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -3031,16 +3026,14 @@
     PyObject *clsdict;
     PyObject *copyreg;
     PyObject *slotnames;
-    static PyObject *str_slotnames;
 
-    if (str_slotnames == NULL) {
-        str_slotnames = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__slotnames__");
-        if (str_slotnames == NULL)
-            return NULL;
+    if (!PyType_Check(cls)) {
+        Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+        return Py_None;
     }
 
     clsdict = ((PyTypeObject *)cls)->tp_dict;
-    slotnames = PyDict_GetItem(clsdict, str_slotnames);
+    slotnames = PyDict_GetItemString(clsdict, "__slotnames__");
     if (slotnames != NULL && PyList_Check(slotnames)) {
         Py_INCREF(slotnames);
         return slotnames;
@@ -3074,20 +3067,12 @@
     PyObject *slots = NULL, *listitems = NULL, *dictitems = NULL;
     PyObject *copyreg = NULL, *newobj = NULL, *res = NULL;
     Py_ssize_t i, n;
-    static PyObject *str_getnewargs = NULL, *str_getstate = NULL,
-                    *str_newobj = NULL;
 
-    if (str_getnewargs == NULL) {
-        str_getnewargs = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__getnewargs__");
-        str_getstate = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__getstate__");
-        str_newobj = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__newobj__");
-        if (!str_getnewargs || !str_getstate || !str_newobj)
-            return NULL;
-    }
+    cls = PyObject_GetAttrString(obj, "__class__");
+    if (cls == NULL)
+        return NULL;
 
-    cls = (PyObject *) Py_TYPE(obj);
-
-    getnewargs = PyObject_GetAttr(obj, str_getnewargs);
+    getnewargs = PyObject_GetAttrString(obj, "__getnewargs__");
     if (getnewargs != NULL) {
         args = PyObject_CallObject(getnewargs, NULL);
         Py_DECREF(getnewargs);
@@ -3105,7 +3090,7 @@
     if (args == NULL)
         goto end;
 
-    getstate = PyObject_GetAttr(obj, str_getstate);
+    getstate = PyObject_GetAttrString(obj, "__getstate__");
     if (getstate != NULL) {
         state = PyObject_CallObject(getstate, NULL);
         Py_DECREF(getstate);
@@ -3113,18 +3098,17 @@
             goto end;
     }
     else {
-        PyObject **dict;
         PyErr_Clear();
-        dict = _PyObject_GetDictPtr(obj);
-        if (dict && *dict)
-            state = *dict;
-        else
+        state = PyObject_GetAttrString(obj, "__dict__");
+        if (state == NULL) {
+            PyErr_Clear();
             state = Py_None;
-        Py_INCREF(state);
+            Py_INCREF(state);
+        }
         names = slotnames(cls);
         if (names == NULL)
             goto end;
-        if (names != Py_None && PyList_GET_SIZE(names) > 0) {
+        if (names != Py_None) {
             assert(PyList_Check(names));
             slots = PyDict_New();
             if (slots == NULL)
@@ -3183,7 +3167,7 @@
     copyreg = import_copyreg();
     if (copyreg == NULL)
         goto end;
-    newobj = PyObject_GetAttr(copyreg, str_newobj);
+    newobj = PyObject_GetAttrString(copyreg, "__newobj__");
     if (newobj == NULL)
         goto end;
 
@@ -3191,8 +3175,8 @@
     args2 = PyTuple_New(n+1);
     if (args2 == NULL)
         goto end;
-    Py_INCREF(cls);
     PyTuple_SET_ITEM(args2, 0, cls);
+    cls = NULL;
     for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
         PyObject *v = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(args, i);
         Py_INCREF(v);
@@ -3202,6 +3186,7 @@
     res = PyTuple_Pack(5, newobj, args2, state, listitems, dictitems);
 
   end:
+    Py_XDECREF(cls);
     Py_XDECREF(args);
     Py_XDECREF(args2);
     Py_XDECREF(slots);
@@ -3261,34 +3246,31 @@
 static PyObject *
 object_reduce_ex(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
-    static PyObject *str_reduce = NULL, *objreduce;
     PyObject *reduce, *res;
     int proto = 0;
 
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|i:__reduce_ex__", &proto))
         return NULL;
 
-    if (str_reduce == NULL) {
-        str_reduce = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__reduce__");
-        objreduce = PyDict_GetItemString(PyBaseObject_Type.tp_dict,
-                                         "__reduce__");
-        if (str_reduce == NULL || objreduce == NULL)
-            return NULL;
-    }
-
-    reduce = PyObject_GetAttr(self, str_reduce);
+    reduce = PyObject_GetAttrString(self, "__reduce__");
     if (reduce == NULL)
         PyErr_Clear();
     else {
-        PyObject *cls, *clsreduce;
+        PyObject *cls, *clsreduce, *objreduce;
         int override;
-
-        cls = (PyObject *) Py_TYPE(self);
-        clsreduce = PyObject_GetAttr(cls, str_reduce);
+        cls = PyObject_GetAttrString(self, "__class__");
+        if (cls == NULL) {
+            Py_DECREF(reduce);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+        clsreduce = PyObject_GetAttrString(cls, "__reduce__");
+        Py_DECREF(cls);
         if (clsreduce == NULL) {
             Py_DECREF(reduce);
             return NULL;
         }
+        objreduce = PyDict_GetItemString(PyBaseObject_Type.tp_dict,
+                                         "__reduce__");
         override = (clsreduce != objreduce);
         Py_DECREF(clsreduce);
         if (override) {