Profiling the Python Interpreter

[gb at cs.unc.edu]

I'm not asking about profiling Python programs here. I'm very
familiar with that.

I want to profile the python interpreter itself. My goal is to
discover where the time goes and in particular why the Cygwin version
runs about 30% slower than the native version on win2k.

I compiled the cygwin with -pg but the resulting gmon.out says that no
counts were accumulated. 

Any clues on how to get profiling to work will be appreciated.

gb