diff --git a/Objects/frameobject.c b/Objects/frameobject.c
index b652973600c17d..3c0b454503be66 100644
--- a/Objects/frameobject.c
+++ b/Objects/frameobject.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 #include "frameobject.h"          // PyFrameLocalsProxyObject
 #include "opcode.h"               // EXTENDED_ARG
-#include "pycore_optimizer.h"
 
 #include "clinic/frameobject.c.h"
 
diff --git a/Python/instrumentation.c b/Python/instrumentation.c
index 9e750433cffa89..28bbe1d82a3b88 100644
--- a/Python/instrumentation.c
+++ b/Python/instrumentation.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 #include "pycore_tuple.h"         // _PyTuple_FromArraySteal()
 
 #include "opcode_ids.h"
-#include "pycore_optimizer.h"
 
 
 /* Uncomment this to dump debugging output when assertions fail */