# Optimization / Readability/Maintainability

> "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.

Record: `tension:optimization-readability-maintainability`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-optimization-readability-maintainability

## tensions-with

- [Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/optimization.md)
- [Readability/Maintainability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/readability-maintainability.md)