that is a fairly old texlive, but as I said the size difference cannot be compared for small documents.
for better explanations I think it is better to ask on the comp.text.tex news group, as that is read by most of the developers., This forum is not.
General ⇒ Compiling: latex vs pdflatex
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Re: Compiling: latex vs pdflatex
Ok, I'll post my doubt there.
Thanks!
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