diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/compiler.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/compiler.ts
index 4d853ce9a2..24580037ae 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/compiler.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/compiler.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ function _createCompilerConfig() {
  */
 export const COMPILER_PROVIDERS: Array<any | Type | {[k: string]: any} | any[]> =
     /*@ts2dart_const*/[
-      /*@ts2dart_Provider*/ {provide: CompilerConfig, useFactory: _createCompilerConfig, deps: []},
       Lexer,
       Parser,
       HtmlParser,
@@ -51,6 +50,7 @@ export const COMPILER_PROVIDERS: Array<any | Type | {[k: string]: any} | any[]>
       DEFAULT_PACKAGE_URL_PROVIDER,
       StyleCompiler,
       ViewCompiler,
+      /*@ts2dart_Provider*/ {provide: CompilerConfig, useFactory: _createCompilerConfig, deps: []},
       RuntimeCompiler,
       /*@ts2dart_Provider*/ {provide: ComponentResolver, useExisting: RuntimeCompiler},
       DomElementSchemaRegistry,
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/config.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/config.ts
index 4427f59733..4d72de81cf 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/config.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/config.ts
@@ -6,20 +6,15 @@ import {ViewEncapsulation} from '@angular/core';
 
 export class CompilerConfig {
   public renderTypes: RenderTypes;
-  public interpolateRegexp: RegExp;
   public defaultEncapsulation: ViewEncapsulation;
 
   constructor(public genDebugInfo: boolean, public logBindingUpdate: boolean,
-              public useJit: boolean, renderTypes: RenderTypes = null, 
-              interpolateRegexp: RegExp = null, defaultEncapsulation: ViewEncapsulation = null) {
+              public useJit: boolean, renderTypes: RenderTypes = null,
+              defaultEncapsulation: ViewEncapsulation = null) {
     if (isBlank(renderTypes)) {
       renderTypes = new DefaultRenderTypes();
     }
     this.renderTypes = renderTypes;
-    if (isBlank(interpolateRegexp)) {
-      interpolateRegexp = DEFAULT_INTERPOLATE_REGEXP;
-    }
-    this.interpolateRegexp = interpolateRegexp;
     if (isBlank(defaultEncapsulation)) {
       defaultEncapsulation = ViewEncapsulation.Emulated;
     }
@@ -49,8 +44,3 @@ export class DefaultRenderTypes implements RenderTypes {
   renderNode = null;
   renderEvent = null;
 }
-
-/**
- * A regexp pattern used to interpolate in default.
- */
-export var DEFAULT_INTERPOLATE_REGEXP = /\{\{([\s\S]*?)\}\}/g;
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser.ts
index 8a4850fc49..349b0642a7 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import {Injectable, Inject} from '@angular/core';
+import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';
 import {isBlank, isPresent, StringWrapper} from '../../src/facade/lang';
 import {BaseException} from '../../src/facade/exceptions';
 import {ListWrapper} from '../../src/facade/collection';
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ import {
   AstVisitor,
   Quote
 } from './ast';
-import {CompilerConfig} from '../config';
 
 
 var _implicitReceiver = new ImplicitReceiver();
+// TODO(tbosch): Cannot make this const/final right now because of the transpiler...
+var INTERPOLATION_REGEXP = /\{\{([\s\S]*?)\}\}/g;
 
 class ParseException extends BaseException {
   constructor(message: string, input: string, errLocation: string, ctxLocation?: any) {
@@ -68,9 +69,7 @@ export class TemplateBindingParseResult {
 @Injectable()
 export class Parser {
   constructor(/** @internal */
-              public _lexer: Lexer,
-              /** @internal */
-              public _config: CompilerConfig) {}
+              public _lexer: Lexer) {}
 
   parseAction(input: string, location: any): ASTWithSource {
     this._checkNoInterpolation(input, location);
@@ -138,7 +137,7 @@ export class Parser {
   }
 
   splitInterpolation(input: string, location: string): SplitInterpolation {
-    var parts = StringWrapper.split(input, this._config.interpolateRegexp);
+    var parts = StringWrapper.split(input, INTERPOLATION_REGEXP);
     if (parts.length <= 1) {
       return null;
     }
@@ -188,7 +187,7 @@ export class Parser {
   }
 
   private _checkNoInterpolation(input: string, location: any): void {
-    var parts = StringWrapper.split(input, this._config.interpolateRegexp);
+    var parts = StringWrapper.split(input, INTERPOLATION_REGEXP);
     if (parts.length > 1) {
       throw new ParseException('Got interpolation ({{}}) where expression was expected', input,
                                `at column ${this._findInterpolationErrorColumn(parts, 1)} in`,
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/expression_parser/parser_spec.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/expression_parser/parser_spec.ts
index 6f28992b9b..de3c298905 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/expression_parser/parser_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/expression_parser/parser_spec.ts
@@ -2,12 +2,11 @@ import {ddescribe, describe, it, xit, iit, expect, beforeEach} from '@angular/co
 import {isBlank, isPresent} from '../../src/facade/lang';
 import {Parser} from '@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser';
 import {Unparser} from './unparser';
-import {CompilerConfig} from '@angular/compiler';
 import {Lexer} from '@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/lexer';
 import {BindingPipe, LiteralPrimitive, AST} from '@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/ast';
 
 export function main() {
-  function createParser() { return new Parser(new Lexer(), new CompilerConfig(true, true, true)); }
+  function createParser() { return new Parser(new Lexer()); }
 
   function parseAction(text, location = null): any {
     return createParser().parseAction(text, location);
@@ -454,14 +453,6 @@ export function main() {
         checkInterpolation(`{{ 'foo' +\n 'bar' +\r 'baz' }}`, `{{ "foo" + "bar" + "baz" }}`);
       });
 
-      it('should support custom interpolation regexp', () => {
-        var customParser = new Parser(new Lexer(), new CompilerConfig(true, true, true, null, /<<([\s\S]*?)>>/g));
-        var ast = (customParser.parseInterpolation('<< a >>', null) as any).ast;
-        expect(ast.strings).toEqual(['', '']);
-        expect(ast.expressions.length).toEqual(1);
-        expect(ast.expressions[0].name).toEqual('a');
-      });
-
       describe("comments", () => {
         it('should ignore comments in interpolation expressions',
            () => { checkInterpolation('{{a //comment}}', '{{ a }}'); });
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/i18n_html_parser_spec.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/i18n_html_parser_spec.ts
index 5ab2da30e6..6e4d59703b 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/i18n_html_parser_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/i18n_html_parser_spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import {describe, expect, it, iit, ddescribe} from "@angular/core/testing/testing_internal";
 import {I18nHtmlParser} from "@angular/compiler/src/i18n/i18n_html_parser";
 import {Message, id} from "@angular/compiler/src/i18n/message";
-import {CompilerConfig} from "@angular/compiler/src/config";
 import {Parser} from "@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser";
 import {Lexer} from "@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/lexer";
 import {StringMapWrapper} from "../../src/facade/collection";
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ export function main() {
   describe('I18nHtmlParser', () => {
     function parse(template: string, messages: {[key: string]: string}, implicitTags: string[] = [],
                    implicitAttrs: {[k: string]: string[]} = {}): HtmlParseTreeResult {
-      var parser = new Parser(new Lexer(), new CompilerConfig(true, true, true));
+      var parser = new Parser(new Lexer());
       let htmlParser = new HtmlParser();
 
       let msgs = '';
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/message_extractor_spec.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/message_extractor_spec.ts
index 8a9f521fe2..9438888e0d 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/message_extractor_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/i18n/message_extractor_spec.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
 } from '@angular/core/testing/testing_internal';
 
 import {HtmlParser} from '@angular/compiler/src/html_parser';
-import {CompilerConfig} from '@angular/compiler/src/config';
 import {MessageExtractor, removeDuplicates} from '@angular/compiler/src/i18n/message_extractor';
 import {Message} from '@angular/compiler/src/i18n/message';
 import {Parser} from '@angular/compiler/src/expression_parser/parser';
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ export function main() {
 
     beforeEach(() => {
       let htmlParser = new HtmlParser();
-      var parser = new Parser(new Lexer(), new CompilerConfig(true, true, true));
+      var parser = new Parser(new Lexer());
       extractor = new MessageExtractor(htmlParser, parser, ['i18n-tag'], {'i18n-el': ['trans']});
     });
 
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/offline_compiler_util.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/offline_compiler_util.ts
index 12ac08fd8b..605957e899 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/offline_compiler_util.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/offline_compiler_util.ts
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ function _createOfflineCompiler(xhr: MockXHR, emitter: OutputEmitter): OfflineCo
   xhr.when(`${THIS_MODULE_PATH}/offline_compiler_compa.html`, 'Hello World {{user}}!');
   var htmlParser = new HtmlParser();
   var config = new CompilerConfig(true, true, true);
-  var normalizer = new DirectiveNormalizer(xhr, urlResolver, htmlParser, config);
+  var normalizer = new DirectiveNormalizer(xhr, urlResolver, htmlParser, new CompilerConfig(true, true, true));
   return new OfflineCompiler(
-      normalizer, new TemplateParser(new Parser(new Lexer(), config), new MockSchemaRegistry({}, {}),
+      normalizer, new TemplateParser(new Parser(new Lexer()), new MockSchemaRegistry({}, {}),
                                      htmlParser, new Console(), []),
-      new StyleCompiler(urlResolver), new ViewCompiler(config),
+      new StyleCompiler(urlResolver), new ViewCompiler(new CompilerConfig(true, true, true)),
       emitter, xhr);
 }
 
@@ -80,4 +80,4 @@ export class SimpleJsImportGenerator implements ImportGenerator {
       return importedUrlStr;
     }
   }
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler_cli/src/codegen.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler_cli/src/codegen.ts
index 73beccb65a..9e2c9e927d 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler_cli/src/codegen.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler_cli/src/codegen.ts
@@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ export class CodeGenerator {
     const htmlParser = new HtmlParser();
     const config = new compiler.CompilerConfig(true, true, true);
     const normalizer = new DirectiveNormalizer(xhr, urlResolver, htmlParser, config);
-    const parser = new Parser(new Lexer(), config);
+    const parser = new Parser(new Lexer());
     const tmplParser = new TemplateParser(parser, new DomElementSchemaRegistry(), htmlParser,
                                           /*console*/ null, []);
     const offlineCompiler = new compiler.OfflineCompiler(
         normalizer, tmplParser, new StyleCompiler(urlResolver),
-        new ViewCompiler(config),
+        new ViewCompiler(new compiler.CompilerConfig(true, true, true)),
         new TypeScriptEmitter(reflectorHost), xhr);
     const resolver = new CompileMetadataResolver(
         new compiler.DirectiveResolver(staticReflector), new compiler.PipeResolver(staticReflector),
diff --git a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/ng_compiler.dart b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/ng_compiler.dart
index 13c8db1d5e..994b4d8351 100644
--- a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/ng_compiler.dart
+++ b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/ng_compiler.dart
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ OfflineCompiler createTemplateCompiler(AssetReader reader,
   var _urlResolver = createOfflineCompileUrlResolver();
 
   // TODO(yjbanov): add router AST transformer when ready
-  var parser = new ng.Parser(new ng.Lexer(), compilerConfig);
+  var parser = new ng.Parser(new ng.Lexer());
   var _htmlParser = _createHtmlParser(translations, parser);
 
   var templateParser = new TemplateParser(
diff --git a/tools/public_api_guard/public_api_spec.ts b/tools/public_api_guard/public_api_spec.ts
index 441d917442..41f66ebe0a 100644
--- a/tools/public_api_guard/public_api_spec.ts
+++ b/tools/public_api_guard/public_api_spec.ts
@@ -1246,10 +1246,9 @@ const COMPILER = [
   'CompileTypeMetadata.type:CompileTypeMetadata',
   'CompileTypeMetadata.value:any',
   'CompilerConfig',
-  'CompilerConfig.constructor(genDebugInfo:boolean, logBindingUpdate:boolean, useJit:boolean, renderTypes:RenderTypes=null, interpolateRegexp:RegExp=null, defaultEncapsulation:ViewEncapsulation=null)',
+  'CompilerConfig.constructor(genDebugInfo:boolean, logBindingUpdate:boolean, useJit:boolean, renderTypes:RenderTypes=null, defaultEncapsulation:ViewEncapsulation=null)',
   'CompilerConfig.defaultEncapsulation:ViewEncapsulation',
   'CompilerConfig.genDebugInfo:boolean',
-  'CompilerConfig.interpolateRegexp:RegExp',
   'CompilerConfig.logBindingUpdate:boolean',
   'CompilerConfig.renderTypes:RenderTypes',
   'CompilerConfig.useJit:boolean',