diff --git a/ext/nokogiri/nokogiri.c b/ext/nokogiri/nokogiri.c
index f2e39ab014b..22af3260010 100644
--- a/ext/nokogiri/nokogiri.c
+++ b/ext/nokogiri/nokogiri.c
@@ -176,26 +176,7 @@ Init_nokogiri()
   rb_const_set(mNokogiri, rb_intern("OTHER_LIBRARY_VERSIONS"), NOKOGIRI_STR_NEW2(NOKOGIRI_OTHER_LIBRARY_VERSIONS));
 #endif
 
-#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(NOKOGIRI_PACKAGED_LIBRARIES)
-  /*
-   *  We choose *not* to do use Ruby's memory management functions with windows DLLs because of this
-   *  issue in libxml 2.9.12:
-   *
-   *    https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2241
-   *
-   *  If the atexit() issue gets fixed in a future version of libxml2, then we may be able to skip
-   *  this config only for the specific libxml2 versions 2.9.12.
-   *
-   *  Alternatively, now that Ruby has a generational GC, it might be OK to let libxml2 use its
-   *  default memory management functions (recall that this config was introduced to reduce memory
-   *  bloat and allow Ruby to GC more often); but we should *really* test with production workloads
-   *  before making that kind of a potentially-invasive change.
-   */
   rb_const_set(mNokogiri, rb_intern("LIBXML_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT"), NOKOGIRI_STR_NEW2("default"));
-#else
-  rb_const_set(mNokogiri, rb_intern("LIBXML_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT"), NOKOGIRI_STR_NEW2("ruby"));
-  xmlMemSetup((xmlFreeFunc)ruby_xfree, (xmlMallocFunc)ruby_xmalloc, (xmlReallocFunc)ruby_xrealloc, ruby_strdup);
-#endif
 
   xmlInitParser();
   exsltRegisterAll();