Why is it so? And what generates this difference? The question has been lingering on SX for a while http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/292675/why-does-xelatex-produce-different-files-from-the-same-deterministic-sources but with no reasonable answer!
I wrote a possible answer on SX. Best, Akira -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex