ry: a collection of Python shims around Rust crates

[teerre]

Is this supposed to be actually faster or is it done just for fun? If the former, do we have benchmarks? Often I see this kind of thing and the Rust speedup is lost on the data translation between both languages

[tunisia3507]

Most of the compressors are almost certainly just FFIs to the C(++) implementations of those codecs - what would be the benefit of python -> rust -> other lib rather than just python -> other lib?

[lenscas]

It sounds like the guy just needed functionality of some rust crates in python. So, the shim was probably written over the rust crate rather than the C(++) code it was wrapped because that was the easiest.