lol I remember those days. It's amazing how much PostScript is required to render a few pages of text. I remember one print job I sent that used about 200 pieces of paper after it printed the actual PostScript source instead of parsing and rendering it for some reason.
PostScript, as a concatenative programming language, can be used to write very efficient code. By efficient I mean terse: doing much with very few code. However, it's usually autogenerated, so most ps code is long and ugly (but, obviously, good enough for it's purpose).
Well, when just rendering text the text and the postscript for it can correspond pretty much one-to-one. On the other hand, if you start to include the necessary fonts it quickly becomes big.
