# Profiling / Measurement Overhead

> "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.

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

## tensions-with

- [Profiling](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/profiling.md)
- [Measurement Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/measurement-overhead.md)