Performance and Scaling

Performance advice is only useful when it points to the real owner of the bottleneck.

Operating Rules

• optimize only where contract validation or core transforms are demonstrably hot
• do not blur durable semantics for speed
• runtime-level tuning belongs in runtime unless the contract layer itself is slow

First Proof Check

• src/bijux_proteomics/program_spec.py and targets.py
• src/bijux_proteomics/lifecycle.py and validation.py
• packages/bijux-proteomics-core/tests