cache issues

[jpmorgan98]

Unknown behaviors and bugs of new cache feature

• cache work flows before sending to MPI ranks
• Size of saved cache growing unbounded
• cache requiring recompilation for altered meshes, census time, and census bank buffer

[ilhamv]

After running in Numba mode and getting the compilation cached, we sometimes want to run in pure Python mode again (e.g., to do Python profiling, to compare Python and Numba error messages, etc). Currently, it seems that cached compilation will be used even if we run in Python mode. Is it possible to bypass or ignore the cached compilation in pure Python mode? @jpmorgan98

[jpmorgan98]

This is very odd behavior. Like even if it's in Python mode it will run as if in Numba? My only thought is to delete the cache folder all together. It should be in /__pycache__ in your execution directory

[ilhamv]

It is found that, since we only put the cache decorator in the loop.py, if we make changes in kernel.py, the cache will not recompile.