Typical size of Acrobat Standard program installation?

I have Acrobat Standard 9.4.6 installed on my Windows XP machine. (Note that this is Acrobat, NOT the Reader.)
Is it normal or typical that my C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0 folder takes up over 2GB of disk space?
This seems awfully large, especially since my entire C:\Program Files folder is only a bit over 4GB. The Acrobat 9.0 program folder accounts for almost half of that!
My C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Update folder contains over 1000 files with extension RTP (and a few RTP.BAK). Many of the RTP files are over 13MB in size; the Updates folder is 469MB.
(I believe the RTP files are leftovers/backups related to past program updates?)
I can't believe the Acrobat installation needs to be this inefficient with regards to disk space!
I don't mean to be a crank or a troll, but I have searched Adobe's help resources, these forums and the internet, and there is no information on the size of a typical Acrobat installation anywhere.
I know someone knows this!  I can't believe that among millions of Acrobat users no one else is interested in this.
Thanks for any info.

My Acrobat Pro X is 1.5 GB in size. It hasn't had as many updates to store information into the folder yet. Is 2 GB large yes. However with todays drives 500 GB and larger are typical, I do not think Adobe worries about the ever increasing size of an application with updates. Especially, since they would like you to start with a new version every 18 months to two years.
With the increasing speed of computers and size of hard drives, these concerns don't really worry computer companies. The days of small tight efficient machine code is long gone. It is not cost effective from computer companies to worry about it. Could Adobe write better smaller code, yes. It might cost much more and work on fewer machines and not be compatible with all of the following Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. New versions might take 3 or 4 years to produce. Something that would not make Adobe stockholders happy.
So, yes Adobe could make things more compact, but are you and tens or hundreds of thousands of others willing to pay the price premium it would cost?

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