Lazy Evaluation / Eager Full Materialization
Kind: tension
Record: tension:eager-full-materialization-lazy-evaluation
Canonical: Schema
"lazy-evaluation" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Eager Full Materialization" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Eager Full Materialization" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Lazy Evaluation / Debuggability/Resource Lifetime and before Sequential Access / Lookup Performance.