Minutes_2018_11_06

Numba Meeting: 2018-11-06

Attendees: Todd, Siu

LLVM 7 status
String status
- PR overload(operator.getitem) #3375 updated
- #3414 const/literal refactoring PR

#3477 - Random Shuffle error
#3476 - Docs: 5 minute guide has a dead link
#3475 - Flushing STDOUT in nopython mode
#3474 - LoweringError when passing kwargs to print()
#3473 - Memory leak when using enumerate in a jit function
#3472 - List comprehension in jit function will not trigger undefined variable errors
#3471 - Document NUMBA_CACHE_DIR
#3470 - [Feature request] user defined cache directory
#3469 - Scalars raise typing errors for ndenumerate, reshape, transpose, min, etc.
#3466 - Run into problem with duke's expectation maximization
#3465 - Add support for np.clip
#3464 - Isolated and unloadable execution engine of jit code
#3461 - parfors SIGFPE core dumps
#3460 - set.pop() behaving incorrectly
#3459 - jitclass array attribute not updated by looping with prange
#3458 - Add documentation FAQ entry about .nv cache directory
#3457 - Support numpy.repeat
#3456 - Support numpy.tile
#3454 - Conditions on constant expr not working in stencil Closed
#3463 - Create C extensions with Numba

3437 - Changes to accommodate LLVM 7.0.x
3449 - [WIP] Allow matching non-array objects in find_callname()
3450 - [WIP] generated_jit for CUDA kernels
3429 - Fixes raising of user defined exceptions for exec(<string>).
3416 - Optimized usage of alloca out of the loop
3414 - [WIP] Refactor Const type
3403 - Fix label offset in call inline after parfor pass
3402 - Support negative indexing in tuple
3399 - Add max_registers Option to cuda.jit
3397 - Fix with-objmode warning
3392 - Launch and attach gdb directly from Numba.
3390 - typeinfer: use unknown_loc object instead of string literal
3385 - conda recipe: whitelist libiomp5.dylib
3382 - CUDA_ERROR_MISALIGNED_ADDRESS Using Multiple Const Arrays
3375 - Enable overload(operator.getitem)
3363 - [WIP] string support
- see above discussion
3345 - Support for np.cov
- ready for merge
3162 Support constant dtype string in nopython mode in functions like numpy.empty.
- Need to resolve #3195
3160 First attempt at parallel diagnostics
- Stuart will implement Todd's suggestion
3134 [WIP] Cfunc x86 abi
- Needs re-review
3046 Pairwise sum implementation.
#2999 Support LowLevelCallable
#2950 Fix dispatcher to only consider contiguous-ness.
#2942 Fix linkage nature (declspec(dllexport)) of some test functions
#2894: [WIP] Implement jitclass default constructor arguments.
#2817: [WIP] Emit LLVM optimization remarks

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