Minutes_2022_06_21

Numba Meeting: 2022-06-21

Attendees: Val, Andre Masella, stuart, Siu Kwan Lam, Graham Markall, Kaustubh Chaudhari, LI Da, Guilherme Leobas, Nicholoas Riasanovsky, Shannon Quinn, Todd A. Anderson

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

Please refer to this calendar for the next meeting date.

0. Discussion

• 0.56
  • RC tagging planned for end-of-week
• #8147: runtime_broadcast_assert_shapes in array analysis - Nick
• #8122: support register_jitable-ed function as njit function argument - Graham Markall / Da Li
  • Related to #7580
• Collecting the cache=True default blocking issues - Nick
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Acaching
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/3267
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/6972
  • Hard to track globals
  • Action Item: Nick will open a mega-issue to track safety of cache=True and share on discourse
• Support calling AOT functions from @jit - Guilherme
• 0.57 wishlist
  • python 3.11
  • NRT as bitcode
  • NumPy 1.23
  • Enhancements to array extension, and overload ambiguity

1. New Issues

• #8160 - Program crashes without error message on set inside Typed List
• #8161 - Argument names for random.uniform are different in Numba and numpy
• #8162 - _compiling_counter should not include code path when an overload is found.
• #8168 - Support dict.update with keyword argument key, value pairs
• #8171 - Add a deepcopy method to numba.core.ir.FunctionIR
• #8172 - Performance BUG since version 0.54
• #8176 - Failed in object mode pipeline (step: object mode frontend)
• #8177 - Invalid detection of loop index alias in parfors
• #8178 - poor performance with try except block in parallel
• #8179 - Presence of assertion prevents literal_unroll from working

llvmlite:

• #854 - Create phase-aware pass manager API
• #855 - Update ref-op pruning pass to use remarks API for stats tracking

Closed Issues

• #8159 - numba.pydata.org landing page needs an update
• #8166 - numba parallel on mac, not working
• #8169 - x**(-1) is zero when x is integer

2. New PRs

• #8164 - remove myself from automatic reviewer assignment
• #8167 - CUDA: Facilitate and document passing arrays / pointers to foreign functions
• #8173 - [DO NOT MERGE] Debug Windows CI Pre 1.22
• #8174 - [DO NOT MERGE] Debug Windows CI Post 1.22
• #8180 - CUDA: Initial support for Minor Version Compatibility
• #8181 - Fix various typos

Closed PRs

• #8163 - CUDA: Remove context query in launch config
• #8165 - Restrict strace based tests to be linux only via support feature.
• #8170 - CUDA: Fix missing space in low occupancy warning
• #8175 - make build and upload order consistent

3. Next Release: Version 0.56.0/0.39.0, RC June