Profiling / Measurement Overhead
Kind: tension
Record: tension:measurement-overhead-profiling
Canonical: Schema
"profiling" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Measurement Overhead" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Measurement Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Optimization / Readability/Maintainability and before Benchmarking / Environment Drift.