(Shed Skin is an experimental (restricted-)Python-to-C++ compiler).
Because a new version (0.0.30) is still some weeks away, I decided to post, in the meantime, some links to other people's blog entries about Shed Skin.
making-python-math-196-faster-with-shedskin
taking-on-shed-skin
more performance python
compiled kamaelia
Please let me know if I have missed an interesting entry.
And if you are really bored, here are also some links to (old) discussions on slashdot and osnews:
slashdot article
osnews article