Memory Efficiency / CPU Cost
Kind: tension
Record: tension:cpu-cost-memory-efficiency
Canonical: Schema
"memory-efficiency" (performance-core layer) is traded against "CPU Cost" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "CPU Cost" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Rate Limiting / User Experience and before CDN / Edge Caching / Cache Invalidation.