Or people have no respect for arrogant boasting.

Also, you most likely are a liar. Just the matrix tables you need for MPEG-1 are 500+ lines.

Unless of course you used 1100 lines to call ffmpeg. Then you don't need the tables.

But that being said: Yes, writing a TCP proxy in 200 lines is indeed possible. But it will use standard socket calls. You might want to read up about what io_uring is all about, and why it's worth going the extra mile.

Or, as an alternative, you could STFU :)

You should go back and add error handling to your C programs

Talk is cheap, show me the code.

Your 200 line TCP proxy is likely to be very inefficient.

This is what things like DPDK and io_uring attempt to solve.

So your 200 line proxy... I wonder how it performs compared to this. Since LOC is a silly measure of anything, lets use it further: How many bytes/s/sloc does yours acheive compared to the io_uring one?

post your code

How is a codec a complete application?