Comparing perfs of two python interpreters on the same Linux machine (for Zope)

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Hello,

To implement a Zope intranet on a linux RedHat ES 3, I had to
install a Python 2.3.4 that I have compiled myself.

I would like to compare the respective performance of this
python interpreter and that of the Python provided by RedHat
(just a little bench program would be sufficient) as I suspect
the binary Python 2.3.4 (or just the Zope?) I have produced is 
very inefficient (very very slow!).

Additional info below. Thanks by advance for your advice.

The python binaries on my machine:
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The python that comes with RedHat ES 3 (this is a Python 2.2.3):
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  root    795584 Aug  8  2003 /usr/bin/python

The python I have compiled myself (Python 2.3.4, required and used
by Zope/plone):
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  root   2265733 Jun 25 14:58
/usr/local/bin/python2.3

(Note that the binary sizes are very different: is this suspect?)

How I produced my (apparently inefficient binaries):
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For python:
[root# wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.4/Python-2.3.4.tgz
[root# ./configure
[root# make ; make install

For zope:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/zope-2.7.1-0
--with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.3
$ make
$ make install