Minutes_2021_11_16

Numba Meeting: 2021-11-16

Attendees: Val, Siu Kwan Lam, Graham Markall, Jim Pivarski, Nick Riassanovsky, stuart, Todd A. Anderson, Guilherme Leobas

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

Python 3.10
- centralized issue at #7562
- one last failing test with generators
llvmlite PRs + merge party
- CI on numba in llvmlite will give us more confidence.
#7566
- opt for consistency
- impl3 should behave like impl[1,2]
python 3.10 debrief and future
- 1.5 mo from Python release and still don't have all deps
- release note does not contain all bytecode changes
- at least 2-3mo from python release announcement to Numba support and generally aim for X.Y.1 release time (max of the two)
- numba-hatchery will help us get a early start

#7545 - LiteralStrKeyDict incorrectly handles missing const-key at compile time.
#7550 - njit on f2py wrapped code
#7553 - List.insert() crashes for Numpy arrays
#7558 - No correct way to write a vectorized cuda kernel
#7562 - Numba support for Python 3.10
#7565 - Frozenset support

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