Since CRDTs can be CPU-intensive, I'm wondering if we could run all the Rust code in a separate thread, and have an async Python API that would not block while waiting for the CRDT operations to complete.
For instance:

async with doc.begin_transaction() as txn:
    await ytext.extend(txn, "foo")
    ...

delta = await encode_state_as_update(doc)
await apply_update(other_doc, delta)

I know that Ypy doesn't support multi-threading, but here all the Rust code would run in the same thread (but this would not be the main Python thread).
I think this would be a nice performance gain on multi-core CPUs. On single-core CPUs the non-async API would be a better choice.