diff --git a/iris/bi/lib/fractional.v b/iris/bi/lib/fractional.v
index 0c84e2778cad12298abbc3494ba4c78b12f9b2ca..be6ea67b369d6db1a2b0e800a5ea76b08931b0e9 100644
--- a/iris/bi/lib/fractional.v
+++ b/iris/bi/lib/fractional.v
@@ -155,39 +155,4 @@ Section fractional.
     AsFractional P Φ q → AsFractional Q Φ (q/2) →
     IntoSep P Q Q | 100.
   Proof. intros. rewrite /IntoSep [P]fractional_half //. Qed.
-
-  (* The instance [frame_fractional] can be tried at all the nodes of
-     the proof search. The proof search then fails almost always on
-     [AsFractional R Φ r], but the slowdown is still noticeable.  For
-     that reason, we factorize the three instances that could have been
-     defined for that purpose into one. *)
-  Inductive FrameFractionalHyps
-      (p : bool) (R : PROP) (Φ : Qp → PROP) (RES : PROP) : Qp → Qp → Prop :=
-    | frame_fractional_hyps_l Q q q' r:
-       Frame p R (Φ q) Q →
-       MakeSep Q (Φ q') RES →
-       FrameFractionalHyps p R Φ RES r (q + q')
-    | frame_fractional_hyps_r Q q q' r:
-       Frame p R (Φ q') Q →
-       MakeSep Q (Φ q) RES →
-       FrameFractionalHyps p R Φ RES r (q + q')
-    | frame_fractional_hyps_half q :
-       AsFractional RES Φ (q/2) →
-       FrameFractionalHyps p R Φ RES (q/2) q.
-  Existing Class FrameFractionalHyps.
-  Global Existing Instances frame_fractional_hyps_l frame_fractional_hyps_r
-    frame_fractional_hyps_half.
-
-  Global Instance frame_fractional p R r Φ P q RES:
-    AsFractional R Φ r → AsFractional P Φ q →
-    FrameFractionalHyps p R Φ RES r q →
-    Frame p R P RES.
-  Proof.
-    rewrite /Frame=>-[HR _][->?]H.
-    revert H HR=>-[Q q0 q0' r0|Q q0 q0' r0|q0].
-    - rewrite fractional /Frame /MakeSep=><-<-. by rewrite assoc.
-    - rewrite fractional /Frame /MakeSep=><-<-=>_.
-      by rewrite (comm _ Q (Φ q0)) !assoc (comm _ (Φ _)).
-    - move=>-[-> _]->. by rewrite bi.intuitionistically_if_elim -fractional Qp_div_2.
-  Qed.
 End fractional.