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I use ZCACHE as a backend for cleancache on a low mem (512 MB) ARM machine (Tegra2/AC100) and I found it very useful (note: this machine not officially supported by Canonical, I just mentioned it as a usecase). Similar for ZRAM (also in staging and included in the Ubuntu kernel). On the other hand, I guess on x86 class machines it doesn't make much sense yet (except for visualization environments). But I still like it on my 2GB desktop because I often run huge compile jobs which benefit from more buffer cache.
Also as pointed out by already, it is disabled by default and the remaining code seems to be safe to be included. So if you really feel uncomfortable with building it in, it may be disabled for x86 and enabled for ARMs.