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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