diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 901a7e6..a1dc5f7 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 InteractiveUtils = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
-VectorizationBase = "3d5dd08c-fd9d-11e8-17fa-ed2836048c2f"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Aqua", "InteractiveUtils", "StaticArrays", "Test", "VectorizationBase"]
+test = ["Aqua", "InteractiveUtils", "StaticArrays", "Test"]
diff --git a/src/threadtasks.jl b/src/threadtasks.jl
index 311eb55..c7bd3ce 100644
--- a/src/threadtasks.jl
+++ b/src/threadtasks.jl
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ function (tt::ThreadTask)()
   GC.@preserve THREADPOOL begin
     while true
       if _atomic_state(p) == TASK
-        # if _atomic_cas_cmp!(p, TASK, EXEC)
         _call(p)
-        # store!(p, SPIN)
         _atomic_store!(p, SPIN)
         wait_counter = zero(UInt32)
         continue
diff --git a/test/internals.jl b/test/internals.jl
index 58daa73..376ec6f 100644
--- a/test/internals.jl
+++ b/test/internals.jl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     @test ThreadingUtilities.store!(pointer(UInt[]), nothing, 1) == 1
     x = zeros(UInt, 100);
     GC.@preserve x begin
-        t1 = (1.0, C_NULL, Val(7), (3, UInt(17)), VectorizationBase.stridedpointer(x))
+        t1 = (1.0, C_NULL, Val(7), (3, UInt(17)), (pointer(x), strides(x)))
         @test ThreadingUtilities.store!(pointer(x), t1, 0) === mapreduce(sizeof, +, t1)
         @test ThreadingUtilities.store!(pointer(x), Val(0), 0) == 0
         @test ThreadingUtilities.load(pointer(x), typeof(t1), 0) === (mapreduce(sizeof, +, t1), t1)
diff --git a/test/testsetup.jl b/test/testsetup.jl
index c2b97af..6aaf492 100644
--- a/test/testsetup.jl
+++ b/test/testsetup.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 using ThreadingUtilities
 using Test
-using VectorizationBase
 
 import InteractiveUtils
 
diff --git a/test/threadingutilities.jl b/test/threadingutilities.jl
index e686e30..6215c1b 100644
--- a/test/threadingutilities.jl
+++ b/test/threadingutilities.jl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ function (::Copy{P})(p::Ptr{UInt}) where {P}
   _, (ptry,ptrx,N) = ThreadingUtilities.load(p, P, 2*sizeof(UInt))
   N > 0 || throw("This function throws if N == 0 for testing purposes.")
   @simd ivdep for n ∈ 1:N
-    vstore!(ptry, vload(ptrx, (n,)), (n,))
+    unsafe_store!(ptry, unsafe_load(ptrx, n), n)
   end
 end
 @generated function copy_ptr(::A, ::B) where {A,B}
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ end
 function setup_copy!(p, y, x)
   N = length(y)
   @assert length(x) == N
-  py = stridedpointer(y)
-  px = stridedpointer(x)
+  py = pointer(y)
+  px = pointer(x)
   fptr = copy_ptr(py, px)
   offset = ThreadingUtilities.store!(p, fptr, sizeof(UInt))
   ThreadingUtilities.store!(p, (py,px,N), offset)