running Linux with no swap space (but lots of RAM)

w> What if your computer uses flash memory instead
w> of a hard drive to boot? [...] This circumstance is
w> a very good reason to not have SWAP, [...]

No. It's a very good reason to not swap to the boot device on that
system, but instead to swap to some other device that can tolerate
paging I/O. The problem in your hypothetical is that the chosen
device cannot tolerate the I/O, not that the system is paging to disc.

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