Optimization / Readability/Maintainability
Kind: tension
Record: tension:optimization-readability-maintainability
Canonical: Schema
"optimization" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Readability/Maintainability" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Readability/Maintainability" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Big O Notation / Constant-Factor Practicality and before Profiling / Measurement Overhead.