Minutes_2019_04_16

Attendees: Stuart, Stan, Todd, Siu, Ehsan

0. Feature Discussion

Resolving meetings running out of time?
- suggestion, have one meeting for dealing with day-to-day running of Numba, another for more discussion like topics
- agreed. Start doing this next week.
LLVM 8 status
- windows--
  - update windows builder compilers
  - try msvc 2017
- everything else seems ok
- Polly...
Optimizing the Test Suite
- Siu has some work to produce a small testsuite subset that has the same coverage as the full testsuite.
- Val is looking at the test runner:
  - A lot of time spent waiting for slow test to finish in each parallel test group.
  - Put serial tests back to parallel

#3980 - Performance hit with local temporary variables
#3979 - SSA for loop variables
#3977 - Wikipedia page on Numba
#3976 - SSA error for common string code pattern
#3974 - numba -s unknown locale error
#3972 - optional type does not work for arrays in njit
#3971 - numpy isin
#3968 - exception: access violation reading 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
- ACTION: investigate status of boundchecks
#3966 - String interning optimization
#3965 - Short String Optimization (SSO)
#3961 - Segmentation fault with cffi external module and njit parallel=True
#3960 - Remove deprecated use of inspect.getargspec
#3958 - Meta issue for variable naming and user-annotation dict getting out-of-sync