# Performance Optimization

> The degree to which pushing side effects to the edges can forgo in-place optimizations that mutate for speed.

Record: `lexicon:performance-optimization`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-performance-optimization

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Effect Boundaries](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/effect-boundaries.md) and before [Pure Core / Imperative Shell](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/pure-core-imperative-shell.md).

## Category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## In tension with

- [Controlled Side Effects](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/controlled-side-effects.md)
- [Controlled Side Effects / Performance Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/controlled-side-effects-performance-optimization.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)