diff --git a/components/style/parallel.rs b/components/style/parallel.rs
index fecdff844a69..0af6eed469c1 100644
--- a/components/style/parallel.rs
+++ b/components/style/parallel.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ use context::TraversalStatistics;
 use dom::{OpaqueNode, SendNode, TElement, TNode};
 use rayon;
 use scoped_tls::ScopedTLS;
-use sharing::STYLE_SHARING_CANDIDATE_CACHE_SIZE;
 use smallvec::SmallVec;
 use std::borrow::Borrow;
 use std::mem;
@@ -36,21 +35,10 @@ use traversal::{DomTraversal, PerLevelTraversalData, PreTraverseToken};
 /// The maximum number of child nodes that we will process as a single unit.
 ///
 /// Larger values will increase style sharing cache hits and general DOM locality
-/// at the expense of decreased opportunities for parallelism. The style sharing
-/// cache can hold 8 entries, but not all styles are shareable, so we set this
-/// value to 16. These values have not been measured and could potentially be
-/// tuned.
+/// at the expense of decreased opportunities for parallelism. This value has not
+/// been measured and could potentially be tuned.
 pub const WORK_UNIT_MAX: usize = 16;
 
-/// Verify that the style sharing cache size doesn't change. If it does, we should
-/// reconsider the above. We do this, rather than defining WORK_UNIT_MAX in terms
-/// of STYLE_SHARING_CANDIDATE_CACHE_SIZE, so that altering the latter doesn't
-/// have surprising effects on the parallelism characteristics of the style system.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-fn static_assert() {
-    unsafe { mem::transmute::<_, [u32; STYLE_SHARING_CANDIDATE_CACHE_SIZE]>([1; 8]); }
-}
-
 /// A list of node pointers.
 ///
 /// Note that the inline storage doesn't need to be sized to WORK_UNIT_MAX, but
diff --git a/components/style/sharing/mod.rs b/components/style/sharing/mod.rs
index 621c76794e06..40e4181407d9 100644
--- a/components/style/sharing/mod.rs
+++ b/components/style/sharing/mod.rs
@@ -84,8 +84,16 @@ use stylist::{ApplicableDeclarationBlock, Stylist};
 mod checks;
 
 /// The amount of nodes that the style sharing candidate cache should hold at
-/// most.
-pub const STYLE_SHARING_CANDIDATE_CACHE_SIZE: usize = 8;
+/// most.  We'd somewhat like 32, but ArrayDeque only implements certain backing
+/// store sizes.  A cache size of 32 would mean a backing store of 33, but
+/// that's not an implemented size: we can do 32 or 40.
+///
+/// The cache size was chosen by measuring style sharing and resulting
+/// performance on a few pages; sizes up to about 32 were giving good sharing
+/// improvements (e.g. 3x fewer styles having to be resolved than at size 8) and
+/// slight performance improvements.  Sizes larger than 32 haven't really been
+/// tested.
+pub const STYLE_SHARING_CANDIDATE_CACHE_SIZE: usize = 31;
 
 /// Controls whether the style sharing cache is used.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]