Is drawing using glArrayElement between glBegin()/glEnd() as eff. as glDrawElements?

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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Is drawing using glArrayElement between glBegin()/glEnd() as eff. as glDrawElements?

I.e. e.g.

glEnableClientState( GL_VERTEX_ARRAY );
glEnableClientState( GL_COLOR_ARRAY );
glVertexPointer( 2, GL_INT, 0, vertices );
glColorPointer( 3, GL_FLOAT, 0, colors );
glBegin( GL_TRIANGLES );
glArrayElement( 1 );
glArrayElement( ... );
glArrayElement( n );
glEnd();

VS

glEnableClientState( GL_VERTEX_ARRAY );
glEnableClientState( GL_COLOR_ARRAY );
glVertexPointer( 2, GL_INT, 0, vertices );
glColorPointer( 3, GL_FLOAT, 0, colors );
glDrawArrays(...)
...
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Probably not. It’s an improvement over calling glNormal/glVertex/etc, but the overhead of one call per vertex is still going to be significant.