Minutes_2021_09_21

Numba Meeting: 2021-09-21

Attendees: Siu Kwan Lam, stuart, Valentin Haenel, brandon willard, Guilherme, Luk, Nick Riasanovsky, Shi Fan, Todd Andeson

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

0.54.1
- pending minimal fix for https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/7355
- short RC esp for distributed systems
- branching later this week
- tagging early next week
Inline closure SSA problem/regression
- plan for 0.55
- to fix with LLVM-style prefixing function name to inlined variable name
default branch rename
- wait after 0.54.1 tagged
- stuart + val tiger team
Val talks about numba changes for Python3.10

#7399 - Allow getting pointer (address) to Numba's int/float variables
#7400 - Allow pyobject annotation on outgoing variables in objmode
#7402 - guvectorize does not implement the numpy ufunc interface in versions 0.53+
#7406 - Support for Numpy convolve mode 'valid'
#7409 - numba.vectorize interface inconsistency between target="cpu" and target="parallel"
#7410 - Support for Record type in jitclass
#7411 - jit(locals) are propagated to inline functions with same variable names

#7396 - if statement inside a for loop fails
#7405 - Caching Silently Fails with Omitted Arguments
#7407 - Untyped global name 'dblquad': Cannot determine Numba type of <class 'function'> : Scipy dblquad not work in Numba
#7408 - Type inference failing when using a heapq of namedtuples

Request for 0.55
- broadcast_to https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/7119
  - driven by need for vectorize support in aesara
  - Now merged