Numba
| Numba | |
|---|---|
 Numba logo | |
| Original author | Continuum Analytics |
| Developer | Community project |
| Release | 15 August 2012 |
| Stable release | 0.67.0 
/ 12 August 2026 |
| Written in | Python, C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | x86-64, ARM64, POWER |
| Type | Technical computing |
| License | BSD 2-clause |
| Website | numba |
| Repository | |
| Numba CUDA | |
|---|---|
| Developer | NVIDIA |
| Stable release | 0.4.0
/ January 27, 2025 |
| Platform | NVIDIA GPU |
| License | BSD 2-clause |
| Website | nvidia |
| Repository | github |
Numba is an open-source JIT compiler that translates a subset of Python and NumPy into fast machine code using LLVM, via the llvmlite Python package. It offers a range of options for parallelising Python code for CPUs and GPUs, often with only minor code changes.
Numba was started by Travis Oliphant in 2012 and has since been under active development with frequent releases. The project is driven by developers at Anaconda, Inc., with support by DARPA, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Intel, Nvidia and AMD, and a community of contributors on GitHub.