Why are Conda virtual environments so large?

Question

Out of curiosity, I simply compared the size of the virtual environment directory created by Conda with the one created by virtualenv.

$ conda create -p venv_conda python=3.6

$ python -m virtualenv venv_virtualenv

The size of the conda environment in Windows 7 is equal 110MB, whereas the virtualenv environment only accepts 22MB. This is five times more. Does anyone know why so much space is required in a conda environment?

Answer 1

I read the answer here https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/2yurjj/conda_environment_vs_virtualenv/

which reads:

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