# Composability / Performance Overhead

> "composability" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Performance Overhead" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Performance Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:composability-performance-overhead`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-composability-performance-overhead

## tensions-with

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