memory-is-bounded-at-the-cost-of-silent-information-loss

Status: IN

The codebase systematically accepts information loss for bounded resource consumption through two complementary mechanisms: deterministic truncation (fixed-capacity deques and version lists silently dropping oldest entries) and probabilistic approximation (HyperLogLog, Morris counters, SimHash trading exact answers for space-efficient estimates), establishing a consistent architectural preference where memory guarantees take precedence over data completeness or computational accuracy.

Justifications

Deterministic truncation and probabilistic approximation are two faces of the same bounded-memory commitment

Depends on (SL): bounded-collections-trade-completeness-for-memory, probabilistic-structures-trade-accuracy-for-space

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