Portability / Platform Optimization
Kind: tension
Record: tension:platform-optimization-portability
Canonical: Schema
"portability" (resource-core layer) is traded against "Platform Optimization" (resource-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Platform Optimization" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Verification / Cost and before Platform Independence / Native Optimization.