X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sod/blobdiff_plain/a7560f9e0cbe73a552e1cbb59d00838db1bb126e..5897a8d4f56db50164f054332a2fe5c33328eb51:/doc/concepts.tex diff --git a/doc/concepts.tex b/doc/concepts.tex index c4bcf61..0533a68 100644 --- a/doc/concepts.tex +++ b/doc/concepts.tex @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ Keyword arguments can be provided in three ways. \end{enumerate} Perhaps surprisingly, keyword arguments have a relatively small performance -impact. On the author's aging laptop, a call to a simple function, passing +impact. On the author's ageing 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