Using Multiprocessing.Pool with Taichi

[kurt-rhee]

I am attempting to use multiprocessing.pool in a part of my application that is outside of the taichi kernel.

My program structure is as follows in pseudo-code:

if __name__ == '__main__':
   import taichi as ti
   from file_a import function_a
   
   function_a()

In file_a:

import taichi as ti
from file_b import function_b
from file_c import function_c

function_b()
function_c()

in file_b

import taichi as ti
print(j)

def function_b():
   do_stuff_with_taichi_functions

in file_c

import multiprocessing
def function_c():
   do_stuff_with_multiprocessing

I've noticed that what happens is I end up importing taichi many times:

[kurt-rhee]

I actually found out that it was adding the file to the init that was causing the issue