Aperture library smaller than the iPhoto one

Hi !
I just moved from iPhoto to Aperture. I imported my iPhoto library and everything seemed to be ok. Then i noticed one thing that bothers me : my Aperture library is much smaller in size than my iPhoto library (130 Go and 180 Go).
Is it normal ?
Thanks by advance for your answers,
Nicolas

How did you import your iPhoto Library? With "File -> Import -> iPhoto Library"? Or did you import selected items using the iPhoto Browser?
If your masters are referenced and stored outside the Aperture Library (either on an external volume or even referenced still inside your iPhoto Library) then these numbers are o.k.
But if you imported the complete iPhoto Library storing managed masters inside your Aperture Library, then the resulting Aperture Library should be slightly larger than the iPhoto Library, since Aperture initially stores all master files and edites versions from iPhoto, plus new thumbnails and previews. So if you imported your iPhoto Library completely as managed Library, than it is likely that some images are missing, unless you have many duplicates in your iPhoto Library.
In the long run Aperture stores images much more efficiently then iPhoto, since it does not actually create version images, it only stores the settings how to compute the versions, when a version will be exported. For newly imported images you will notice that Aperture requires less space to store these imports and versions than iPhoto.

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