Minutes_2024_04_09

Numba Meeting: 2024-04-09

Attendees: Da Li, Todd Anderson, Siu Kwan Lam, Graham Markall FPOC (last week): Graham FPOC (incoming): Siu

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

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Triage tasks:
- numba 0.60.0 is planned to be released ASAP now that NumPy 2.0 conda packages are available in testing channels.
- completed 0.60.0 milestone pruning; moved non-critical items to 0.61.0 milestone
numba-scipy release 0.4 in progress :: Questions
- ~~What range of Python to support~~
- ~~What range of NumPy to support~~
- ~~What range of SciPy to support~~
- ~~Azure vs GHA -- can we drop azure?~~
- Update to 3.12 going to come in 0.5 release due to complexity of upgrade
- NumPy 2.0 support?
Review ping for llvmlite #1025: skip raise basic blocks in verifyFanoutBackward
Scope for rolling llvmlite PR #979 (Update llvmdev to build compiler-rt) into #1036 (LLVM 15 conda recipe)
LLVM 15 upgrade update: New Pass Manager, etc.
Short term roadmap: https://hackmd.io/XoqNGgLhR06icOumaybC2g

numba#9522 - Jitclass + numpy functions can't compile with attribute as second parameter
numba#9525 - Unable to convert generator returning 1D arrays into a 2D array using fromiter/vstack
numba#9526 - CUDA: Error handling variables not added to the @llvm.used list
numba#9527 - Support for Advanced Numpy dtypes

numba#9521 - Support binop reduction.
numba#9523 - Test Codecov
numba#9524 - Introduce context.call_overload and raise dynamic exception in guard_match_core_dims