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When you wrote this answer in 2010, the size was 1.8 Gigabytes, all answers given, and all possible justification for those might have sufficed then, but here in 2019, latex has grown by an additional 3 gigabyes and to about 90 minutes worth of CPU to install from source on a fast desktop pc or flagship macbook pro. Any answer except: "latex boils down to about 20 to 50 MB of useful code, with an additional 4.5 Gigabytes of hot dogshit", is insufficient at capturing the landfill fire that is modern latex. Latex is now the #1 most bloated piece of software in the modern world.

Eric Leschinski
– Eric Leschinski

2019-05-25 04:55:34 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2019 at 4:55

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