Finally! I have found what causes this huge performance drop
Disabling this option restores performance.
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Got my performance back. Now I’ll work on further optimization of the problems
Ivan3z found.
Turning off this retainerBox option in 5.4 gives a small boost.
Performance in both versions looks similar now but 5.5 consumes more memory and RHIT much faster
The only open question that remains is why this option causes such a big problem on 5.5
UPD Forgot to turn-on weapon list widget, so the performance with it is this, 5.5 consumes even more memory