# Complexity Awareness

> The ability to reason about how an algorithm's cost grows with input size.

Record: `lex:complexity-awareness`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-complexity-awareness

## category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## referenced-by

- [Algorithmic Efficiency](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/algorithmic-efficiency.md)