I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the 
minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths:
tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820
pdftex                   5630
texexec               22,173

The only thing I added to the last test was the \starttext and 
\stoptext tags. The dvips etc. test defaulted to pdf 1.2,
the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts 
would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second 
test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs 
per the publisher. 

Just fyi
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John Culleton
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