That was a very good question with nice replies and links to interesting documents.
After 20 years of flying the A320 series I learned something new today.
I'll admit then, until now, whenever Flysmart came up with a small stop margin with a high FLEX temp (At much lower OAT), I went into 'conservative mode'. If possible I would use intersection t.o. figures from full rwy or 'modify' the runway with a length reduction at the end or some other way to create some extra stop margin.
I'll become a little bit less conservative now that I've learned the effect on the stop margin caused by the difference between FLEX and OAT temperatures.
There's one small advice I'd like to give to Ondraayyy though (Off topic)
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Ondraayyy
...Of course I did not argue with him, but I kinda disagreed with him on that....
Ondraaayyy, why did you say 'of course'? Was it because you thought that doing it his way was safe and legal anyway and the timing was not good to start a discussion at that point in time, or was it because he's the captain, you're the f/o and challenging your captain is not part of the normal cultural behavior in your part of the world?
The first reason is fine. The fact that your captain brought it up himself in cruise is a credit to him. The second reason would be a very dangerous attitude.
In any airline, in any part of the world, the f/o challenging the captain (and vice versa) when one does not understand or agree with what the other one is doing should be perfectly normal!
Never ever let a captain talk you into a situation that you would consider unsafe. Don't be a pain in the ass nagging about any minor deviation from SOP, but DO speak up when you suspect it might be important!
(Don't feel offended if you personally didn't need this advice.)