diff --git a/build-utils-meson/diagnostics/meson.build b/build-utils-meson/diagnostics/meson.build
index 4548f93ad..e81f19eff 100644
--- a/build-utils-meson/diagnostics/meson.build
+++ b/build-utils-meson/diagnostics/meson.build
@@ -6,8 +6,5 @@ add_project_arguments(
   '-Wignored-qualifiers',
   '-Wimplicit-fallthrough',
   '-Wno-deprecated-declarations',
-  # Enable assertions in libstdc++ by default. Harmless on libc++. Benchmarked
-  # at ~1% overhead in `nix search`.
-  #
   language : 'cpp',
 )