abetlen / abetlen/llama-cpp-python
The new shared library causes conflicts if more than 1 variant of llama-cpp-python is imported
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The `ctypes.CDLL` call under https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python/blob/7e20e346bd49cc8f0031eb053fe879a38c777b6f/llama_cpp/llama_cpp.py#L75 loads symbols in the global scope. In my project, it is possible to load 3 different versions of llama-cpp-python:
* CUDA
* CUDA + tensorcores (without `-DGGML_CUDA_FORCE_MMQ=ON`)
* CPU
Due to the shared library, when one of the libraries is already imported and the user switches to another one, undefined behavior happens, such as the CPU version having BLAS=1 in its logs.
Can this be prevented? I think that it may be impossible to work around this issue on my side. I have tried `importlib.reload` and it didn't work.
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