# Performance Overhead

> The degree of runtime cost added by composing behavior from many small, indirected parts.

Record: `lexicon:performance-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-performance-overhead

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Over-Specialization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/over-specialization.md) and before [Simplicity for Trivial Reuse](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/simplicity-for-trivial-reuse.md).

## Category

- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/core-modular-design.md)

## In tension with

- [Composability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/composability.md)
- [Composability / Performance Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/composability-performance-overhead.md)

## Linked from

- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-core-modular-design.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)