Ah; since the title was "17k" lines, and the directory was named "includes", I presumed those were includes.
So that would seem to say the title is also counting that compiled version, when in fact it is much simpler. But then also, why is the compiled version longer than the sum of the files in includes?
The line count is a rough (overestimate) summoning the source of the three projects involved, simplenetes, simplenetesd and podc, and it also includes comments and blank lines.
The compiled output pulls in some dependency modules which is reusable code (STRING, etc). So it's not clear where to draw the line :)
Reason the compiled output gets bigger is because the compilation process `(make.sh)` includes compilations of actions, which I use when connecting over SSH agentless to manage the nodes. This tough part is handled by Space.sh [1]
So that would seem to say the title is also counting that compiled version, when in fact it is much simpler. But then also, why is the compiled version longer than the sum of the files in includes?