How much do bones slow things down?

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I actually meant vertices. More vertices for a given bone to push means heavier calculation, so if each 5-boned mesh had 200 polygons then deformation would obviously be faster than 2000 because of the also lower vertex count, not taking into account the render speed for the surfaces themselves. That's why I'm interested in the polycount. Hope I'm making sense here.