diff --git a/lib/register/passes/set_implementation.rb b/lib/register/passes/set_implementation.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index a3d1231e..00000000
--- a/lib/register/passes/set_implementation.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-
-module Register
-  # This implements setting of the various slot variables the vm defines.
-
-  class SetImplementation
-    def run block
-      block.codes.dup.each do |code|
-        next unless code.is_a? Virtual::Set
-        # need a temporay place because of indexed load/store
-        tmp = Register.tmp_reg :int
-        # for constants we have to "move" the constants value
-        if( code.from.is_a?(Parfait::Value) or code.from.is_a?(Symbol) or code.from.is_a?(Fixnum) )
-          move1 = LoadConstant.new(code, code.from , tmp )
-        else # while otherwise we "load"
-          puts "from #{code.from}"
-          move1 = Register.get_slot(code, code.from.object_name , get_index(code.from) , tmp )
-        end
-        #puts "to #{code.to}"
-        move2 = Register.set_slot( code , tmp , code.to.object_name , get_index(code.to) )
-        block.replace(code , [move1,move2] )
-      end
-    end
-
-    def get_index from
-      case from
-      when Virtual::Self , Virtual::NewSelf
-        return Register.resolve_index( :message , :receiver)
-      when Virtual::MessageName , Virtual::NewMessageName
-        return Register.resolve_index( :message , :name)
-      when Virtual::Return
-        return Register.resolve_index( :message , :return_value)
-      when Virtual::ArgSlot , Virtual::NewArgSlot
-        #puts "from: #{from.index}"
-        return Register.resolve_index( :message , :name) + from.index
-      when Virtual::FrameSlot
-        #puts "from: #{from.index}"
-        return Register.resolve_index( :frame , :next_frame) + from.index
-      else
-        raise "not implemented for #{from.class}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-  Virtual.machine.add_pass "Register::SetImplementation"
-end
diff --git a/lib/register/register.rb b/lib/register/register.rb
index b31522f9..386a247a 100644
--- a/lib/register/register.rb
+++ b/lib/register/register.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ require_relative "instruction"
 require_relative "register_value"
 require_relative "assembler"
 require_relative "passes/frame_implementation"
-require_relative "passes/set_implementation"
 require_relative "passes/return_implementation"
 require_relative "passes/call_implementation"
 
diff --git a/lib/virtual/instruction.rb b/lib/virtual/instruction.rb
index 475ac5fe..e3b34d17 100644
--- a/lib/virtual/instruction.rb
+++ b/lib/virtual/instruction.rb
@@ -18,4 +18,3 @@ require_relative "instructions/method_call"
 require_relative "instructions/method_enter"
 require_relative "instructions/method_return"
 require_relative "instructions/new_frame"
-require_relative "instructions/set"
diff --git a/lib/virtual/instructions/set.rb b/lib/virtual/instructions/set.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index cbcae738..00000000
--- a/lib/virtual/instructions/set.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-module Virtual
-
-  # class for Set instructions, A set is basically a mem move.
-  # to and from are indexes into the known objects(frame,message,self and new_message),
-  # these are represented as slots  (see there)
-  # from may be a Constant (Object,Integer,String,Class)
-  class Set < Instruction
-    def initialize from , to
-      raise "no to slot #{to.inspect}" unless to.is_a? Slot
-      @from = from
-      @to = to
-    end
-    attr_reader :from , :to
-  end
-end