Time Complexity / Space Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:space-complexity-time-complexity
Canonical: Schema
"time-complexity" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Space Complexity" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Space Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Algorithmic Efficiency / Implementation Simplicity and before Big O Notation / Constant-Factor Practicality.