Shed Skin is an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler, than can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python programs into optimized C++. Besides the typing restriction, programs cannot freely use the Python standard library (although several common modules are currently supported). Also, not all Python features, such as nested functions and variable numbers of arguments, are supported.
For a set of 27 non-trivial test programs (at about 7,000 lines in total; see the Googlecode site), measurements show a typical speedup of 2-40 times over Psyco, about 10 on average, and 2-220 times over CPython, about 35 on average. Because Shed Skin is still in an early stage of development, however, many other programs will not compile out-of-the-box. Bug reports are very much welcome!
This homepage is only a stub. Please refer to the Googlecode site for downloads and further information.