diff --git a/compression/CBFByteOffset.cpp b/compression/CBFByteOffset.cpp
index f618e4e02..2e37db681 100644
--- a/compression/CBFByteOffset.cpp
+++ b/compression/CBFByteOffset.cpp
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@
 #include <cstring>
 #include <string>
 
-#if defined(__SSE2__) || defined(_M_X64) || defined(_M_AMD64)
-#  include <emmintrin.h>
-#  define MINICBF_STREAM_STORE 1
-#endif
-
 #include "../common/JFJochException.h"
 
 namespace {
@@ -19,26 +14,6 @@ int16_t ReadI16(const uint8_t *p) { int16_t v; std::memcpy(&v, p, 2); return v;
 int32_t ReadI32(const uint8_t *p) { int32_t v; std::memcpy(&v, p, 4); return v; }
 int64_t ReadI64(const uint8_t *p) { int64_t v; std::memcpy(&v, p, 8); return v; }
 
-// Nothing on this side reads the decoded image back: it goes to the GPU by DMA, or a CPU engine
-// walks it once and drops it. An ordinary store therefore pays twice over - it reads every cache
-// line before overwriting it, and it evicts 72 MB of live cache to make room - so the pixels go
-// straight past the cache. Measured on an 18 Mpx frame: 27 ms of ordinary stores against 11 ms of
-// these. The bytes written are the same either way; the fence is what makes them visible to the
-// copy that follows.
-void StorePixel(int32_t *out, int32_t value) {
-#ifdef MINICBF_STREAM_STORE
-    _mm_stream_si32(out, value);
-#else
-    *out = value;
-#endif
-}
-
-void StoreFence() {
-#ifdef MINICBF_STREAM_STORE
-    _mm_sfence();
-#endif
-}
-
 }  // namespace
 
 // The x-CBF_BYTE_OFFSET scheme: a running value, each pixel stored as a delta in the smallest
@@ -75,12 +50,10 @@ void DecodeCBFByteOffset(const uint8_t *data, size_t size, int32_t *out, size_t
         }
 
         value += delta;
-        StorePixel(out + written, static_cast<int32_t>(value));
+        out[written] = static_cast<int32_t>(value);
         written++;
     }
 
-    StoreFence();
-
     if (written != n_pixels)
         throw JFJochException(JFJochExceptionCategory::InputParameterInvalid,
                               "miniCBF byte-offset stream ended after " + std::to_string(written)