Spike: Investigate using Rust for Extension Modules

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      Context

      Our Python C Extension modules are difficult to maintain and require vigilance to avoid memory leaks. We should investigate using Rust for the existing C extensions. We could wrap the Rust BSON crate for the heavy lifting in our BSON code, and do a straight port of our cmessagemodule code.

      In the spike we would need to wrap a subset of the BSON types and compare the encode/decode performance of the Rust version to the CPython version.

      Definition of done

      Determine the feasibility of a full port.

      Pitfalls

      Users would need a rust toolchain to build our C extensions on unsupported platforms.

            Assignee:
            Alex Clark
            Reporter:
            Steve Silvester
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