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These are the guys who left Enthought (http://www.enthought.com/) to start Continuum Analytics:

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2012/01/transition-to...

An email thread started by the author gives some more information on targets and characteristics: https://groups.google.com/group/numpy/t/ad48cbce6002da9e

Note that the author says: "It is proof of concept stage only at this point (use it only if you are interested in helping develop the code at this point)."

I noticed the very first lightning talk here seems to be on Numba and gives a good general overview: http://pyvideo.org/video/654/saturday-morning-lightning-talk...

Kudos for forking and working on an alternative version of llvm-py.

Any relation to continuum.com ?

Numba - A NumPy aware (LLVM-based) optimizing compiler for Python