diff --git a/clip/simple_tokenizer.py b/clip/simple_tokenizer.py
index 0a66286b7..83cc17c32 100644
--- a/clip/simple_tokenizer.py
+++ b/clip/simple_tokenizer.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import regex as re
 
 
-@lru_cache()
 def default_bpe():
     return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "bpe_simple_vocab_16e6.txt.gz")