Minutes_2024_02_13

Numba Meeting: 2024-02-13

Attendees: FPOC (last week): Kaustubh FPOC (incoming):

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

Please refer to this calendar for the next meeting date.

0.59.0rc1 milestone close out: https://github.com/numba/numba/milestone/73
revive benchmarking suite. relates to https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9428
Need a policy on adding new stuff to deprecated features. xref #8143 which is adding fastmath to cc.export (pycc is pending deprecation).
- Team has decided on the policy to not to add any new features/functionality to things that have already been deprecated.
Discussion on office hours at different time zones
During Office Hours
- Jim P presented https://github.com/jpivarski-talks/2024-02-13-numba-usage-stats

numba#9424 - Support math.nextafter in nopython mode
numba#9426 - Update changelog script to account for missing author info on github.
numba#9427 - searchsorted with dtype datetime64 stopped working in njit mode going from 0.58.1 to 0.59
numba#9429 - GPU target doesn't emit compile events
numba#9431 - explicit specialization does not respect caching
numba#9432 - Bug: (regression) cooperative grid sync w/ cache=True - working in 0.58.1, not working in 0.59.0
numba#9433 - np.median raises AssertionError for empty arrays while numpy returns nan
numba#9434 - Integrate ZLUDA for AMD CUDA
numba#9435 - nextafter (via both math and numpy) missing for CUDA

numba#9428 - Optimize range() to enable more auto-vectorization
numba#9430 - Type system implementation #2: Added builtins support for the new type system.

(last numba: 9435; llvmlite 1032)