Iām not sure if this is the right place to post this. I tried Miniconda today. By default, the tbb package is missing unlike the full Anaconda installation.
For the wheels installation via pip, I came to realization that Numba does not work with tbb/tbb-devel 2021.6.0 due to installing the latest and building Numba manually.
pip install tbb==2021.5.0 # macOS
pip install tbb==2021.5.1 # Linux
pip install tbb==2021.5.2 # Windows
pip install numba==0.56.0
I would like to shed some more light on a point mentioned in the release notes:
The performance of @stencil s has been improved in both serial and parallel execution.
As mentioned the performance of @stencil has definitely improved in both serial and parallel mode. I reran the tests for Issue#6456 that I first reported and here are the results: