Minutes_2021_06_15

Numba Meeting: 2021-06-15

Attendees: Siu Kwan Lam, Todd A Anderson, Brandon Willard, Graham Markall, Stuart, Valentin Haenel

NOTE: All communication is subject to the Numba Code of Conduct.

Discuss w/ Brandon on broadcasting support related to
- https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/7078
- https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/7077
Moving off gitter
- https://numba.discourse.group/t/request-for-thoughts-feedback-on-moving-off-gitter-potentially-to-slack/751
- other clients
  - zulip
    - further reading: https://zulip.com/for/open-source/
  - ms team
  - pumble.com
- also looked at
  - Discord
    - but lack threads currently
Brandon talks about Aesara performance
- issue: https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara/issues/404
- numba performance is better than generated C
- function call overhead is lower

#7112 - NumPy Ufuncs on scalar values don't work in CUDA
#7111 - Using @overload with types.Callable fails to find compiled implementation at Lowering
#7110 - numpy.delete optional argument 'axis' support
#7109 - Second update to nonlocal variable is ignored
#7108 - Mutating a typed dict whilst iterating is not handled correctly
#7105 - Array returned from prange loop is wrong unless that array is read before the function returns.
#7104 - CUDA on WSL2 Support
#7103 - GDB doesn't show the values of variables when it hits breakpoint the first time
#7101 - segmentation fault when calling np.all in ipython
#7099 - NamedTuple Optional np.ndarray field type does not compile
#7095 - numba build fails with TBB
#7093 - CUDA: Make typing and target contexts singletons
#7091 - Numba causes crash when using python climate-indices package in terminal