Size limit for iphoto library file?

I'm in the process of housekeeping my photo folder in readyness to import into iphoto. I have about 30GB of photo's and want to leave iphoto in the mode that makes its own copy.
I'm therefore assuming that the iphoto library file will be over 30GB....is this reasonable or would you say too big? i.e. would such a large file be likely to cause problems?
Also, how does timemachine back it up - I think it is a package, so does timemachine only backup the changes inside the file, or does it take the whole file each time a change is made?
Thanks for any insight.

I've seen iphoto diet and some terminal commands for old versions of iphoto to shrink the library file size (remove some originals, modified) but don't know if they work on '11. Any ideas how to shrink the size of the library file? I've already gone through and removed dupes and housecleaned.
Never run iPhoto diet or other programs including terminal or use the finder that modify the structure or content of the iPhoto library - doing so will corrupt your library and cause data loss
You can run the iPhoto library on an external drive is disk space is an issue - you can not remove some (or any) versions of the photos from the library
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