This note presents a minimal, regime-classifying result for buffering in finite systems operating under closure constraints. We show that the effectiveness of buffering is not intrinsic to system architecture, but instead depends on how relational complexity scales with buffer size. If complexity admits an effective scaling exponent γ such that C (B) ~ B^γ, then total closure burden scales as B^ (2γ−1), yielding three regimes: buffering is beneficial for γ 1/2. This provides a falsifiable, cross-domain framework applicable to computational, physical, and cognitive systems, and extends prior work on closure dynamics and information-theoretic residue.
C. James Kruse (Fri,) studied this question.