# Parallelism / Coordination Overhead

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

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

## tensions-with

- [Parallelism](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/parallelism.md)
- [Coordination Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/coordination-overhead.md)