Minutes_2023_09_05

Numba Meeting: 2023-09-05

Attendees: Stuart, Guilherme, Graham Markall, Todd A. Anderson, Siu Kwan Lam, Jim Pivarski, Kaustubh, Brandon Willard, Da Li FPOC (last week): Kaust FPOC (incoming): Guilherme

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

Please refer to this calendar for the next meeting date.

0. Discussion

• Numba 0.58.0 RC2

  • 2 outstanding PR/issues

• Zoom?

  • Alternatives:
  • https://jitsi.org/
    • rules may have changed for annoymously started meetings
  • google meet
    • limit with non-paid account
      • may not allow guest

• Discourse post from dyu. (Todd)

  • Maximum recursion depth exceeded while using prange.
  • https://numba.discourse.group/t/maximum-recursion-depth-exceeded-while-using-prange/2107
  • TODO: Siu will debug

• (Brandon) Parser project

  • Threading and locking: Is it easier to implement it in Numba or call C code?
  • https://github.com/Python-for-HPC/PyOMP

New "Ready for Review" PRs

1. New Issues

• numba#9174 - Internal error at <numba.core.typeinfer.CallConstraint
• numba#9175 - Segfault when iterating over typed Dict right after printing 0.57.1
• numba#9177 - Cannot unpickle ListTypeIteratorTypes
• numba#9178 - stack should support list as input
• numba#9179 - Using numpy random generators does not work with optional arguments

Closed Issues

• numba#9176 - Error trying to download with pip

2. New PRs

• llvmlite#988 - Fix FreeBsd build

Closed PRs

• merged - numba#9173 - Towncrier fixups (Continue #9158 and retarget to main branch)

3. Short-term Roadmap

gantt: https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/8971