Minutes_2020_01_06

Numba Meeting: 2020-01-06

Attendees: Stuart, Ehsan, Graham, Aaron, Pearu, Todd

#5037 - Update CI configurations to reflect minimum requirements
** #5036 - Review minimum requirements and version pinning
** #5035 - llvmlite 0.31 breaks numba 0.46
- pin llvmlite in setup.py of numba
#5034 - NotDefinedError
- Stop asking for new issues in backtraces (not getting enough info from most users to do anything about the reported bugs, which are often user-code related)
** #5033 - SIMD vectorization failure with nditer
**** #5031 - parallel computations may ignore conditions
- Todd has a fix and is testing it
#5030 - How do you raise an exception from the unboxing context?
** #5028 - Feature request: line profiler/performance profiler
** #5026 - Typed List sort() struggles key function optional
#5025 - Provide documentation, docstrings, tests, examples for dynamic shared memory
#5022 - Unhelpful AssertionError when bad arguments passed to cuda.to_device
#5017 - cuda.to_device() cannot copy zero-element data

triaged last week:

#5032 - LLVM Assembly output gets truncated
#5020 - Numba 0.47.0 final checklist
#5015 - semantic constant prop needs to run before static* rewrites
#5013 - new bug in numba lib
#5011 - literally doesn't work in overload_method
#5008 - numba.typed.List does not work with elements of type typing.NamedTuple, but works with collections.namedtuple
#5006 - @jit is not working
#5004 - Unexplained Issue with mutable list as default argument
#4999 - try command support
#4996 - [Bug Report] Compile error using prange and ravel
#4992 - Numba 0.47.0rc1 Checklist
#4986 - error while processing raw.h5ad
#4980 - Numba compilation error, calling function from tkinter
#4976 - pip install numba fails on windows with python 3.8 https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/2918

#5029 - Install optional dependencies for Python 3.8 tests
#5027 - Add Python 3.8 classifier to setup.py
#5023 - Don't launch ForAll kernels with 0 elements (Fixes #5017)
#5016 - Fix various issues in CUDA library search (Fixes #4979)
** #5014 - Enable use of records and bools for shared memory, remove ddt, add additional transpose tests
#5012 - Fix IndexError when accessing the "-1" element of dummyarray

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