Forward-Only Processing / Backtracking Algorithm
Kind: tension
Record: tension:backtracking-algorithm-forward-only-processing
Canonical: Schema
"forward-only-processing" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Backtracking Algorithm" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Backtracking Algorithm" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Forward-Only Processing / Complex Grammar/Global State and before Dataflow Architecture / State Coordination.