diff --git a/lib/events.js b/lib/events.js
index d615fc2132223f..0977f23445556c 100644
--- a/lib/events.js
+++ b/lib/events.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 'use strict';
 
 var domain;
+var spliceOne;
 
 function EventEmitter() {
   EventEmitter.init.call(this);
@@ -389,8 +390,11 @@ EventEmitter.prototype.removeListener =
 
         if (position === 0)
           list.shift();
-        else
+        else {
+          if (spliceOne === undefined)
+            spliceOne = require('internal/util').spliceOne;
           spliceOne(list, position);
+        }
 
         if (list.length === 1)
           events[type] = list[0];
@@ -502,13 +506,6 @@ EventEmitter.prototype.eventNames = function eventNames() {
   return this._eventsCount > 0 ? Reflect.ownKeys(this._events) : [];
 };
 
-// About 1.5x faster than the two-arg version of Array#splice().
-function spliceOne(list, index) {
-  for (var i = index, k = i + 1, n = list.length; k < n; i += 1, k += 1)
-    list[i] = list[k];
-  list.pop();
-}
-
 function arrayClone(arr, n) {
   var copy = new Array(n);
   for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i)
diff --git a/lib/internal/util.js b/lib/internal/util.js
index 1a4e8d62477f2a..a87bc68e7693e1 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util.js
@@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ function join(output, separator) {
   return str;
 }
 
+// About 1.5x faster than the two-arg version of Array#splice().
+function spliceOne(list, index) {
+  for (var i = index, k = i + 1, n = list.length; k < n; i += 1, k += 1)
+    list[i] = list[k];
+  list.pop();
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   assertCrypto,
   cachedResult,
@@ -276,10 +283,11 @@ module.exports = {
   filterDuplicateStrings,
   getConstructorOf,
   isError,
+  join,
   normalizeEncoding,
   objectToString,
   promisify,
-  join,
+  spliceOne,
 
   // Symbol used to customize promisify conversion
   customPromisifyArgs: kCustomPromisifyArgsSymbol,
diff --git a/lib/url.js b/lib/url.js
index 052fb3cd469ed9..2cc4488a3edfd9 100644
--- a/lib/url.js
+++ b/lib/url.js
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ const { toASCII } = process.binding('config').hasIntl ?
   process.binding('icu') : require('punycode');
 
 const { hexTable } = require('internal/querystring');
+const { spliceOne } = require('internal/util');
 
 // WHATWG URL implementation provided by internal/url
 const {
@@ -948,13 +949,6 @@ Url.prototype.parseHost = function parseHost() {
   if (host) this.hostname = host;
 };
 
-// About 1.5x faster than the two-arg version of Array#splice().
-function spliceOne(list, index) {
-  for (var i = index, k = i + 1, n = list.length; k < n; i += 1, k += 1)
-    list[i] = list[k];
-  list.pop();
-}
-
 // These characters do not need escaping:
 // ! - . _ ~
 // ' ( ) * :