no swap makes system slower - why?

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 21:32 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
>> There is no such thing as a swapless setup. If the system wants to swap
>> and there is no swap partition, it will swap to a file on /.
> 
> I do not believe this is correct.

Neither do I.

> You can configure a GNU/Linux to not use swap.  

and you _can_ configure it to use a file, but it won't do it automatically.
-- 
derek