Big O Notation / Constant-Factor Practicality
Kind: tension
Record: tension:big-o-notation-constant-factor-practicality
Canonical: Schema
"big-o-notation" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Constant-Factor Practicality" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Constant-Factor Practicality" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Time Complexity / Space Complexity and before Optimization / Readability/Maintainability.