>1) Is it reasonable to think that Squeak (via Slang) could be stripped 
down to 
>the bare essentials and produce a "small" C file?

If you are worrying about the C source then I was able to reduce 
interp.c from 650k to around 550k by mostly cosmetic improvments (and 
probably could have gotten down to 500k flat...)

Unfortunately I lost all of my changes to a HD failure... =(