Is Geralt's attack speed slower with a heavier weapon?

Does the weight of the sword affect Geralt's attack speed?

My currently equipped sword is about 2.5 Witcher Units of Measurement

Patch 1.07

I have not played in about 5 days and I do not remember if this was happening in 1.06

Background:

I was playing yesterday and noticed that it is taking Geralt much longer to actually execute a swinging motion with his sword and thus leaving him open to attacks for a much longer duration of time.

This has caused several miscalculations during battle on my part and I have been dying more frequently.

The speed of the attacks is done completely through weapon class. It has nothing to do with the weapons themselves. Similar to league of legends however, different materials have different "animation speed" in which they finish their attacks. So it appears to finish the attack faster, however it is the exact same speed.

Example.. "-" is wait time., "+" is the attack

--+--+-- is the same as

-+---+--

It just appears faster because the animation is faster.