# Memory Efficiency / CPU Cost

> "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.

Record: `tension:cpu-cost-memory-efficiency`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-cpu-cost-memory-efficiency

## tensions-with

- [Memory Efficiency](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/memory-efficiency.md)
- [CPU Cost](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/cpu-cost.md)