Minutes_2024_04_23

Numba Meeting: 2024-04-23

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

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

Please refer to this calendar for the next meeting date.

Whether to do a 0.43 for llvmlite given there's v. few changes.
- Yes for consistency
- Regarding LLVM15 support, we will:
  - use LLVM15 for opaque ptr and new pass-maanger support
  - then skip to LLVM17+ (latest verion).
  - if something is wrong, fallback to LLVM14
When to tag an 0.60 RC?
- Plan to test RC over the weekend
- then hopefully tag early next week
NumPy 2 update.
- protocol-based implementation of operators
  - done with scalar types
  - moving on to non-scalar types (e.g. array, str, list)

numba#9533 - Standard container like C+ STL
numba#9534 - numpy.random.binomial(n) is O(n) with numba instead of O(1)
numba#9535 - numba's njit 350x slower than regular Python for random list access
numba#9536 - @stencil(func_or_mode='circular')
llvmlite#1039 - RuntimeError: No available targets are compatible with triple "arm-unknown-linux-gnu"
llvmlite#1040 - Add "align" option for IRBuilder.alloca

numba#9530 - [WIP] Improve typed dict KeyError traceback
numba#9531 - Module pass manager: Don't add passes for unsupported LLVM versions
numba#9532 - Fix hoisting bug to exclude variables used in containers or calls.
numba#9537 - Fix aliasing issues with fusion.

(last numba: 9537; llvmlite 1040)