Minutes_2021_08_17

Numba Meeting: 2021-08-17

Attendees:

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

0. Feature Discussion

• 0.54.0 planned for this week.
• MLIR discussion
  • numba-mlir repo: https://github.com/intel/mlir-extensions
  • usecases to target: https://github.com/IntelPython/dpbench

1. New Issues

• #7305 - Something to check in SSA alg
• #7302 - PPC64LE undefined symbol pthread_atfork error in helperlib
• #7301 - Fail to declare a typed.Dict inside numba.jit
• #7300 - Regular expressions doesn't match on nested function
• #7299 - Numba and pytorch: LLVM crash
• #7297 - cannot unify operator.lt and operator.gt
• #7295 - Can't compile tuple generators

Closed Issues

2. New PRs

• #7304 - Continue PR/3655
• #7303 - Add -lpthread on ppc64le platform to helperlib
• #7296 - Fix generator lowering not casting to the actual yielded type

Closed PRs

• #7298 - Use CBC to pin GCC to 7 on most linux and 9 on aarch64.

3. Next Release: Version 0.55.0/0.38.0, RC=TBD

• Request for 0.55
  • broadcast_to https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/7119
    • driven by need for vectorize support in aesara