diff --git a/Objects/methodobject.c b/Objects/methodobject.c
index 3494f11..b997746 100644
--- a/Objects/methodobject.c
+++ b/Objects/methodobject.c
@@ -7,15 +7,6 @@
 #include "pycore_pystate.h"
 #include "structmember.h"
 
-/* Free list for method objects to safe malloc/free overhead
- * The m_self element is used to chain the objects.
- */
-static PyCFunctionObject *free_list = NULL;
-static int numfree = 0;
-#ifndef PyCFunction_MAXFREELIST
-#define PyCFunction_MAXFREELIST 256
-#endif
-
 /* undefine macro trampoline to PyCFunction_NewEx */
 #undef PyCFunction_New
 
@@ -66,17 +57,10 @@
             return NULL;
     }
 
-    PyCFunctionObject *op;
-    op = free_list;
-    if (op != NULL) {
-        free_list = (PyCFunctionObject *)(op->m_self);
-        (void)PyObject_INIT(op, &PyCFunction_Type);
-        numfree--;
-    }
-    else {
-        op = PyObject_GC_New(PyCFunctionObject, &PyCFunction_Type);
-        if (op == NULL)
-            return NULL;
+    PyCFunctionObject *op =
+        PyObject_GC_New(PyCFunctionObject, &PyCFunction_Type);
+    if (op == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
     }
     op->m_weakreflist = NULL;
     op->m_ml = ml;
@@ -130,14 +114,7 @@
     }
     Py_XDECREF(m->m_self);
     Py_XDECREF(m->m_module);
-    if (numfree < PyCFunction_MAXFREELIST) {
-        m->m_self = (PyObject *)free_list;
-        free_list = m;
-        numfree++;
-    }
-    else {
-        PyObject_GC_Del(m);
-    }
+    PyObject_GC_Del(m);
 }
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -338,16 +315,7 @@
 int
 PyCFunction_ClearFreeList(void)
 {
-    int freelist_size = numfree;
-
-    while (free_list) {
-        PyCFunctionObject *v = free_list;
-        free_list = (PyCFunctionObject *)(v->m_self);
-        PyObject_GC_Del(v);
-        numfree--;
-    }
-    assert(numfree == 0);
-    return freelist_size;
+    return 0;
 }
 
 void
@@ -356,15 +324,6 @@
     (void)PyCFunction_ClearFreeList();
 }
 
-/* Print summary info about the state of the optimized allocator */
-void
-_PyCFunction_DebugMallocStats(FILE *out)
-{
-    _PyDebugAllocatorStats(out,
-                           "free PyCFunctionObject",
-                           numfree, sizeof(PyCFunctionObject));
-}
-
 
 /* Vectorcall functions for each of the PyCFunction calling conventions,
  * except for METH_VARARGS (possibly combined with METH_KEYWORDS) which