Lexicon

Allocation Cost

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Computation Core

Record: lexicon:allocation-cost

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree of extra memory allocation incurred by creating new immutable values instead of mutating in place.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Versioned Inputs and before Continuous Updates.

Category

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification

In tension with

  • Immutability
  • Immutability / Allocation Cost

Linked from

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification
  • The resolutions