How to estimate project size in SLOC when rewriting an aplication from one language to another?

Question

I remember that in the past I found some statistics that were telling the expected size of a program based on the SLOC and programming language.

I would like to do a rough estimate for reimplementing a let's say 100k SLOC C++ project in Python.

Does anyone know where I can find these numbers?

Answer 1

You might want to try the program sloccount. It is able to estimate the SLOC in a whole bunch of languages and even runs on mutiple OS'es