diff --git a/plugin/core/views.py b/plugin/core/views.py
index 983e6faf5..2e5dabcd3 100644
--- a/plugin/core/views.py
+++ b/plugin/core/views.py
@@ -340,11 +340,6 @@ def region_to_range(view: sublime.View, region: sublime.Region) -> Range:
     }
 
 
-def is_range_equal(lhs: Range, rhs: Range) -> bool:
-    return lhs['start']['line'] == rhs['start']['line'] and lhs['start']['character'] == rhs['start']['character'] and \
-        lhs['end']['line'] == rhs['end']['line'] and lhs['end']['character'] == rhs['end']['character']
-
-
 def to_encoded_filename(path: str, position: Position) -> str:
     # WARNING: Cannot possibly do UTF-16 conversion :) Oh well.
     return '{}:{}:{}'.format(path, position['line'] + 1, position['character'] + 1)
diff --git a/plugin/session_buffer.py b/plugin/session_buffer.py
index af1454340..10e45208e 100644
--- a/plugin/session_buffer.py
+++ b/plugin/session_buffer.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 from .core.views import document_color_params
 from .core.views import DOCUMENT_LINK_FLAGS
 from .core.views import entire_content_range
-from .core.views import is_range_equal
 from .core.views import lsp_color_to_phantom
 from .core.views import MissingUriError
 from .core.views import range_to_region
@@ -389,7 +388,7 @@ def get_document_link_at_point(self, view: sublime.View, point: int) -> Optional
     def update_document_link(self, new_link: DocumentLink) -> None:
         new_link_range = new_link["range"]
         for link in self.document_links:
-            if is_range_equal(link["range"], new_link_range):
+            if link["range"] == new_link_range:
                 self.document_links.remove(link)
                 self.document_links.append(new_link)
                 break