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Rudimentary comparison:

Bootstrap 4.5 starter kit [1]: 74kb, DOMContentLoaded after 180 ms

Bootstrap 5.0 starter kit [2]: 57kb, DOMContentLoaded after 160 ms

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/examples/starter-template/

[2] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/examples/starter-template/

That's definitely a good thing, but I think the person you're replying to is also concerned about the performance of the code when being run too. Things like dom manipulation could be slower in BS5's new JS, while jquery's has likely been heavily optimized over the years.

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