Minutes_2024_06_04

Numba Meeting: 2024-06-04

Attendees: Da Li, Ricardo Jesus, Emergency Self-Construct, Siu Kwan Lam, Tood Anderson, Yashwant Singh, Guilherme Leobas, Graham Markall, stuart FPOC (last week): Stuart FPOC (incoming): Val

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

Please refer to this calendar for the next meeting date.

0. Discussion

• The New Pass Manager for llvmlite
• Numba 0.60 release status
  • scipy matrix_power stack smashing and tolerance changes

• String caching (Guilherme Leobas)

New "Ready for Review" PRs

1. New Issues

• numba#9597 - A tuple of uint64 (> 2**63 but < 2**64) as the key of numba Dict
• numba#9598 - NumPy 2.0 incompatibility - A use of np.complex_ still remains
• numba#9599 - NumPy 2.0 incompatibility: RNG's __getstate__() returns None
• llvmlite#1054 - Enable interleave for Loop Optimization
• llvmlite#1055 - Expose module simplification pipeline and extension points with new pass manager

Closed Issues

2. New PRs

• numba#9596 - Added inline_closurecall as an import during registry loading
• numba#9600 - Update release checklist post 0.60.0rc1
• numba#9601 - Added basic setup for getting raw LLVM remarks output
• numba#9602 - Fix numpy2.0 incompatbility issues
• numba#9603 - Disable AVX for nocona
• llvmlite#1053 - Try and get CI to use a newer sphinx
• llvmlite#1056 - Add operand bundle tag support and file system support.

Closed PRs

(last numba: 9603; llvmlite 1056)

3. Short-term Roadmap

2024-gantt: https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9540