FIX: Update Numba Lecture to Address Deprecation of `@jit`

[HumphreyYang]

This PR resolves #294.

Future actions are held in https://github.com/QuantEcon/meta/issues/112

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[HumphreyYang]

Hi @mmcky,

Could you please have a first pass on this?

Many thanks in advance.

[mmcky]

@HumphreyYang thanks for putting this together. This looks like a good change to me.

I wonder if using @jit(nopython=True) would be useful to show instead of @njit as we will plan to swap back to using the simpler @jit directive once the deprecation has been made in a later release.

Also can you please create and link the switch back to @jit issue.

Thank you.

[HumphreyYang]

@HumphreyYang thanks for putting this together. This looks like a good change to me.

I wonder if using @jit(nopython=True) would be useful to show instead of @njit as we will plan to swap back to using the simpler @jit directive once the deprecation has been made in a later release.

Also can you please create and link the switch back to @jit issue.

Thank you.

Hi @mmcky,

From the roadmap, I think Numba developers want to push people away from @jit(nopython=False). If that is the case, I think @njit is more compact. Maybe we should ask @jstac for his opinion?

Also can you please create and link the switch back to @jit issue.

It has been created in the meta repository here as it might involve more than one lecture.

Many thanks in advance.

Best, Humphrey

[jstac]

Thanks @HumphreyYang and @mmcky . I'm indifferent between the two options, since we'll be changing both to @jit soon anyway.

[mmcky]

thanks @HumphreyYang -- that linked issue is useful so I have added it to the top level description.

Do you know if njit is going to persist once the @jit decorator moves to default nopython=True mode?

[HumphreyYang]

thanks @HumphreyYang -- that linked issue is useful so I have added it to the top level description.

Do you know if njit is going to persist once the @jit decorator moves to default nopython=True mode?

Many thanks @mmcky,

I checked their documentation, but I did not find anything about the deprecation of njit. There is no deprecation warning when using njit at the moment. Therefore, I think it is not going to be removed.

[jstac]

Thanks @HumphreyYang , looking good.

@mmcky Could you please give this a careful proofread and then merge when ready? I flagged a couple of small things above.

[HumphreyYang]

Many thanks @jstac and @mmcky ,

The typo is introduced when I modify the text according to @mmcky's feedback. I will be more careful when deleting content. I also found another typo in the original text : )

@mmcky, would you mind having another review and merge if it looks good?

Many thanks in advance.