diff --git a/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp b/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
index a91e7f4bdea08..89a4566c4b827 100644
--- a/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
+++ b/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
@@ -3,32 +3,10 @@
 #include "llama.h"
 
 #include <algorithm>
-#include <cmath>
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
-// mutates the input string
-static std::vector<int> parse_list(char * p) {
-    std::vector<int> ret;
-
-    char * q = p;
-
-    while (*p) {
-        if (*p == ',') {
-            *p = '\0';
-            ret.push_back(std::atoi(q));
-            q = p + 1;
-        }
-
-        ++p;
-    }
-
-    ret.push_back(std::atoi(q));
-
-    return ret;
-}
-
 static void print_usage(int, char ** argv) {
     LOG_TEE("\nexample usage:\n");
     LOG_TEE("\n    %s -m model.gguf -c 2048 -b 2048 -ub 512 -npp 128,256,512 -ntg 128,256 -npl 1,2,4,8,16,32 [-pps]\n", argv[0]);