Ah OK I haven't looked at IFA, but I wonder how it would scale to 40K lines of code? As far as I know that is beyond the state of the art, i.e. a research leve

Ah OK I haven't looked at IFA, but I wonder how it would scale to 40K lines of code? As far as I know that is beyond the state of the art, i.e. a research level problem. Yeah I should get in touch for sure... I remember talking with John about the Apache Traffic Server (formerly Yahoo) and his Python-to-C++ pyc compiler almost 10 years ago! Right now I'm contacting a bunch of people in the EU, since the funders have some preference there. But yes Shed Skin is one of the closest things!