[arch-general] Question about using an efi partition

Hi all, Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi partition for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition the same as say a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I need to have an extra partition for a boot partition or is this efi partition used as the boot partition. I did not see anything regarding this in the wiki so thought I would ask here. Matthew