Noob question : about .step export

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I cannot find it in OpenCascade documentation, but do you know whether if I create a 3d shape, then use obj.clone() and obj.translate()to copy and move it around, then export as a.step` file, the resulting file will be "smaller" because it knows about the fact that I cloned shapes? Or will it contain the full geometry of all the cloned shapes ?