Developer Manual

• Contributing to Numba
  • Communication
  • Getting set up
  • Development rules
  • Documentation
• Numba Release Process
  • Primary Release Candidate Checklist
  • Subsequent Release Candidates, Final Releases and Patch Releases
  • Generating Release Notes
• A Map of the Numba Repository
  • Support Files
  • Numba Source Code
• Numba architecture
  • Introduction
  • Compiler architecture
  • Contexts
  • Compiler stages
• Polymorphic dispatching
  • Requirements
  • Type resolution
  • Specialization selection
  • Miscellaneous
• Notes on generators
  • Terminology
  • Function analysis
  • The generator structure
  • Compiling to native code
• Notes on Numba Runtime
  • Memory Management
  • Recursion Support
  • Using the NRT from C code
  • Future Plan
• Using the Numba Rewrite Pass for Fun and Optimization
  • Overview
  • Rewriting Passes
  • The Rewrite Registry
  • Case study: Array Expressions
  • Conclusions and Caveats
• Live Variable Analysis
  • Notes on behavior of the live variable analysis
• Listings
  • New style listings
  • Old style listings
• Notes on stencils
  • The stencil decorator
  • Handling the three modes
  • Creating the stencil function
  • Exceptions raised
• Customizing the Compiler
  • Implementing a compiler pass
  • Debugging compiler passes
• Notes on Inlining
  • Example using numba.jit()
  • Example using numba.extending.overload()
  • Using a function to limit the inlining depth of a recursive function
• Environment Object
  • The Implementation
• Notes on Hashing
  • The Implementation
• Notes on sys.monitoring
  • What does this mean for Numba?
  • What does Numba do in practice?
• Notes on Caching
  • The Implementation
• Notes on Numba’s threading implementation
  • Thread masking
• Notes on Literal Types
  • Literal Type
  • Specifying for Literal Typing
  • Inside Extensions
• Notes on timing LLVM
  • Getting LLVM Pass Timings
• Notes on Debugging
  • Memcheck
• Event API
• Notes on Target Extensions
  • Inheriting compiler flags from the caller
• Notes on Bytecode Handling
  • LOAD_FAST_AND_CLEAR opcode, Expr.undef IR Node, UndefVar type
• Numba Mission Statement
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Project Goals