Minutes_2023_04_11

Numba Meeting: 2023-04-11

Attendees: Siu Kwan Lam, brandon willard, collison, Graham Markall, Ianna Osborne, Jim Pivarski, Mingjie Wang, Todd A. Anderson, Guilherme, Andre Masella FPOC (last week): Kaust FPOC (incoming): Guilherme

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0. Discussion

• RC released
  • issues so far:
    • numba missing pypi py3.11 tag (fixed by numba#8887)
    • llvmlite windows wheels missing zlib.dll (tracked by llvmlite#933)
      • Current solution requires a bit more of work
  • Kaust made a PR for Towncrier - Tool to produce a changelog. Users will require to write a small text file with changes.
  • nothing major, but we should let user test the RC for another week given this week's holidays. RC period should probably last two more weeks.

• (Brandon) Asked if this release includes RVSDG work.
  • Currently, Kaust and Val are working on the RVSDG. Development is being done in https://github.com/numba/numba-rvsdg
  • Jim also expressed interest in the project; will be especially interested in the point when Python bytecode can be represented as RVSDG.

New "Ready for Review" PRs

1. New Issues

• numba#8882 - Issue with implicit casts to complex in recursive calls
• numba#8886 - JIT-decorated functions raise error when setting NUMBA_DISABLE_JIT=1
• numba#8888 - Feature: support compilation caching for CUDA target
• numba#8889 - complex divide raises unexpected ZeroDivisionError
• numba#8890 - Combination of inner function with argument and list comprehension leads to unexpected behaviour
• llvmlite#933 - Wheel missing zlib.dll on windows

Closed Issues

• numba#8883 - Cannot pass dtype as kernel argument for dynamic shared memory

2. New PRs

• numba#8885 - Fix np.allclose not handling default args
• numba#8887 - Update PyPI supported version tags

Closed PRs

• merged - numba#8879 - Remove use of compile_isolated from generator tests.
• merged - numba#8880 - Fix missing dependency guard on pyyaml in test_azure_config.
• merged - numba#8881 - Replace use of compile_isolated in test_obj_lifetime
• merged - numba#8884 - Pin llvmlite and NumPy on release branch