diff --git a/tatsu/buffering.py b/tatsu/buffering.py
index 6872847..82e7a36 100644
--- a/tatsu/buffering.py
+++ b/tatsu/buffering.py
@@ -268,11 +268,11 @@ def eat_whitespace(self):
         return self._eat_regex(self.whitespace_re)
 
     def eat_comments(self):
-        comments = self._eat_regex_list(self.config.comments_pattern)
+        comments = self._eat_regex_list(cached_re_compile(self.config.comments))
         self._index_comments(comments, lambda x: x.inline)
 
     def eat_eol_comments(self):
-        comments = self._eat_regex_list(self.config.eol_comments_pattern)
+        comments = self._eat_regex_list(cached_re_compile(self.config.eol_comments))
         self._index_comments(comments, lambda x: x.eol)
 
     def next_token(self):
diff --git a/tatsu/infos.py b/tatsu/infos.py
index 9b7d8a9..1fb8e68 100644
--- a/tatsu/infos.py
+++ b/tatsu/infos.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 from .ast import AST
 from .tokenizing import Tokenizer
-from .util.misc import cached_re_compile
 from .util.unicode_characters import C_DERIVE
 
 
@@ -95,18 +94,6 @@ def new(
     # NOTE:
     #    Using functools.cache directly makes objects of this class unhashable
 
-    @property
-    def comments_pattern(self) -> re.Pattern | None:
-        return cached_re_compile(self.comments)
-
-    @property
-    def eol_comments_pattern(self) -> re.Pattern | None:
-        return cached_re_compile(self.eol_comments)
-
-    @property
-    def whitespace_pattern(self) -> re.Pattern | None:
-        return cached_re_compile(self.whitespace)
-
     def effective_rule_name(self):
         # note: there are legacy reasons for this mess
         return self.start_rule or self.rule_name or self.start