[krautsauer]

I rely on it heavily. Have you tried zram swap?

[iberator]

wasting ram speed, disk speed AND cpu compression cycles? No, thank you. ZRAM is dumbest Linux idea in the past 20 years.

[krautsauer]

Disk speed? You can use zram on a diskless system. Are you sure you know what it does? (There's also the thing where it may be faster to read data from ram compressed and decompress it in cpu cache than reading it uncompressed, but that obviously depends on the workload.)