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--- a/lib/keyword.3
+++ b/lib/keyword.3
@@ -212,6 +212,17 @@ Argument vectors are rather inconvenient to use,
 but are the only practical way in which a caller can decide at runtime
 which arguments to include in a call,
 which is useful when writing wrapper functions.
+.PP
+Perhaps surprisingly,
+keyword arguments have a relatively small performance impact.
+On the author's aging laptop,
+a call to a simple function,
+passing two out of three keyword arguments,
+takes about 30 cycles longer than
+calling a standard function which just takes integer arguments.
+On the other hand,
+quite a lot of code is involved in decoding keyword arguments,
+so code size will naturally suffer.
 .
 .SS Type definitions
 The header file defines two simple structure types.
@@ -817,7 +828,7 @@ storing the results in
 It assumes that the first keyword name
 is in an argument named
 .BR kwfirst_ ,
-as set up by
+as set up by the
 .B KWTAIL
 marker described above.
 .PP