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title: 'Numba Meeting: 2025-02-25'
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# Numba Meeting: 2025-02-25

Attendees: 
FPOC (last week): Graham
FPOC (incoming): Siu

NOTE: All communication is subject to the [Numba Code of Conduct](https://github.com/numba/numba-governance/blob/accepted/code-of-conduct.md).


Please refer to [this calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=5rqnddm4gjrdfjm31fsv182epk%40group.calendar.google.com) for the next meeting date.

## Invited talk: Faster and simpler Numba CUDA kernels using CUB and cuda.cooperative

https://numba.discourse.group/t/feb-25-invited-talk-faster-and-simpler-numba-cuda-kernels-using-cub-and-cuda-cooperative/2909


## Discussion

- https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9676 :heavy_check_mark: 
    - Pass timings to be dropped / emitted to `std::error` instead.
- https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1159 :heavy_check_mark: 
    - Graham to continue review until RTM, change supported in general.
- Numba 0.61.1 status update
    - NumPy 2.2 status
    - CUDA backend dynamic exception status
        - NVIDIA should test Numba-CUDA with Numba nightlies on a nightly basis

## New "Ready for Review" PRs

## 1. New Issues
- [numba#9928](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9928) - Python 3.13 FreeThreading support
- [numba#9929](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9929) - Incorrect calculations involving uint8 arrays
- [numba#9931](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9931) - Rounding error for int64 power (square) operations (on py 3.11 only)
- [numba#9932](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9932) - Cannot set shape and strides
- [numba#9933](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9933) - Numba fails to iterate over empty tuple
- [numba#9934](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9934) - pointer force casting
- [numba#9936](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9936) - The is operator in the jitted code does not work for structref instance.
- [numba#9937](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9937) - Inconsistent results with JIT compilation for Int numbers
- [numba#9938](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9938) - First explicit parallel loop example interacts badly with caching?
- [numba#9939](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9939) - how to put a record in class, (not record array)

### Closed Issues
- [numba#9935](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9935) - Pirater Facebook, récupérer un compte Facebook d675c
    - (issue author blocked)

## 2. New PRs
- [numba#9930](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9930) - Adding Edge Case for Median of Empty Array
- [numba#9940](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9940) - add GHA workflow for building numba wheels for win-64
- [llvmlite#1158](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1158) - Opaque pointer fixes
- [llvmlite#1159](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1159) - Add IR layer typed pointers mode
- [llvmlite#1160](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1160) - Drop binding layer typed pointer support and move to LLVM 16.
- [llvmlite#1161](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1161) - Update pre-commit hook python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema to v0.31.2

### Closed PRs
