Obligatory async support request ticket #30
Description
I'll park this ticket here as a placeholder before someone else creates it.
I'd love to support async environments. There are some preconditions:
- a decent asynchronous bitwise stream library (see this issue, for example)
- no non-trivial impact on performance in synchronous environments (with benchmarks to prove it)
- a way of implementing this without doubling the amount of code to support
- some indication that real life humans actually need this feature