Newbie Musing About Installed Size

I recently installed two distros on my PC. Arch Gimmick and Debian Etch. I installed both distros the same way. First I installed the "base" system. Then I installed the minimum amount of additional software required for my needs/wants: X window, KDE, Mozilla-Firefox, packages necessary to use my HP 3210 printer, Kaffeine and multimedia packages necessary to play .mpg and .wmv video files with sound, samba and packages necessary to browse shared folders on a WinXP PC on my local network.
The Arch base system was 575.0 MB while the Etch base system was 460.6 MB. The Arch total installed size is 1647 MB while the Etch installed size is 1200 MB. I am surprised that Arch is 247 MB larger than Etch.
Arch boots from the Grub menu to a full KDE desktop in 40 seconds while Etch takes 43 seconds.
Any comments from more experienced Arch users?
Good luck, jimbo

I did a quick and dirty speed test between Arch and Etch. I measured load time for Firefox, emelfm, Kaffeine, Konsole and Konqueror.
Firefox Emelfm Kaffeine Konsole Konqueror
Arch <3 <1 <2 <1 1
Etch <2 <1 <3 1 1
Not really a very presise test, I just started each application several times while watching a clock. But I think it does represent the relative "feel" of the two distros.
Sorry for the poor column line up, I don't know how to make it any better.
Good luck, jimbo

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18.0-2 - 48540.00KiB
18.0.1-1 - 48532.00KiB
18.0.2-1 - 48540.00KiB
19.0-1 - 33296.00KiB
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