Why am I using LLVM? I was testing the 14.04 release of Ubuntu on VirtualBox, and later, after having gotten a pretty good idea of the changes, removed VirtualBox from my computer. However, when I ran the command 'python' in the terminal... this is what I found:



Why is it that LLVM is being used in terminal?
When you launch python interactively, it prints its version, and the name and version of the compiler that was used to compile it.

In this case, Apple compiled the python executables using clang-500.0.68 (masquerading itself as GCC 4.2.1).