Asynchronous StAX?

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It should be analyzed if it makes sense to make an asynchronous version of the StAX parser similar to node.js, so reading from the stream is non-blocking by giving back execution control to the caller after some time. On the other hand, in contrast to node.js, the StAX parser could work in a separate thread, which would be less expensive to spawn one initially or on-demand as an application doesn't need to handle a lot of parallel requests, so the gains from an asynchronous StAX implementation could be minimal.