diff --git a/libc/arch-x86/dynamic_function_dispatch.cpp b/libc/arch-x86/dynamic_function_dispatch.cpp
index db64237..98d7ec2 100644
--- a/libc/arch-x86/dynamic_function_dispatch.cpp
+++ b/libc/arch-x86/dynamic_function_dispatch.cpp
@@ -33,9 +33,8 @@
 
 DEFINE_IFUNC_FOR(memcmp) {
   __builtin_cpu_init();
-  if (__builtin_cpu_is("atom")) RETURN_FUNC(memcmp_func_t, memcmp_atom);
   if (__builtin_cpu_supports("sse4.1")) RETURN_FUNC(memcmp_func_t, memcmp_sse4);
-  RETURN_FUNC(memcmp_func_t, memcmp_generic);
+  RETURN_FUNC(memcmp_func_t, memcmp_atom);
 }
 MEMCMP_SHIM()
 
diff --git a/libc/arch-x86/generic/string/memcmp.S b/libc/arch-x86/generic/string/memcmp.S
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d327c7..0000000
--- a/libc/arch-x86/generic/string/memcmp.S
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: memcmp.S,v 1.4 2005/08/07 11:30:38 espie Exp $ */
-/*
- * Written by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org>.
- * Public domain.
- */
-
-#include <private/bionic_asm.h>
-
-ENTRY(memcmp_generic)
-	pushl	%edi
-	pushl	%esi
-	movl	12(%esp),%edi
-	movl	16(%esp),%esi
-	cld				/* set compare direction forward */
-
-	movl	20(%esp),%ecx		/* compare by words */
-	shrl	$2,%ecx
-	repe
-	cmpsl
-	jne	L5			/* do we match so far? */
-
-	movl	20(%esp),%ecx		/* compare remainder by bytes */
-	andl	$3,%ecx
-	repe
-	cmpsb
-	jne	L6			/* do we match? */
-
-	xorl	%eax,%eax		/* we match, return zero	*/
-	popl	%esi
-	popl	%edi
-	ret
-
-L5:	movl	$4,%ecx			/* We know that one of the next	*/
-	subl	%ecx,%edi		/* four pairs of bytes do not	*/
-	subl	%ecx,%esi		/* match.			*/
-	repe
-	cmpsb
-L6:	movzbl  -1(%edi),%eax		/* Perform unsigned comparison	*/
-	movzbl	-1(%esi),%edx
-	subl	%edx,%eax
-	popl	%esi
-	popl	%edi
-	ret
-END(memcmp_generic)