Reflection / Performance/Safety
Kind: tension
Record: tension:performance-safety-reflection
Canonical: Schema
"reflection" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Performance/Safety" (declarative-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Performance/Safety" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Metaprogramming / Explicit Handwritten Code and before Reflection / Static Analysis.