diff --git a/src/sparsemap.c b/src/sparsemap.c
index c64660f..40692e8 100644
--- a/src/sparsemap.c
+++ b/src/sparsemap.c
@@ -1187,14 +1187,9 @@ size_t
 sparsemap_span(sparsemap_t *map, size_t loc, size_t len)
 {
   size_t size = 1024;
-  //  size_t size = sparsemap_get_size(map);
-  //  assert(size >= SM_SIZEOF_OVERHEAD);
-  //  if (loc + 1 > size - len || len < size) {
-  //    return size;
-  //  }
 
   do {
-    size_t nth = sparsemap_select(map, loc, len);
+    size_t nth = sparsemap_select(map, len);
     size_t count = sparsemap_rank(map, nth - len, nth);
     if (count == len) {
       return nth - len;