[Boost-users] Is boost asio appropriate for this use case ?

Subject: [Boost-users] Is boost asio appropriate for this use case ?
From: Aaron Boxer (boxerab_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-09 15:21:59

I am decoding an image file: the file has tagged header info mixed with 4K
pixel code blocks.

Platform is primarily windows, but could be osx or linux.

Once I read in a code block, I can launch (asynchronously) my decode
routine on this block, while continuing to read the file for header info
and code blocks.

Currently, I do synchronous reads using fread(...).

Is is worthwhile to switch to boost asio to asynchronously read in the code
blocks? The read callback could trigger my decode routine. But I wouldn't
have to wait for the read before I carry on to the next code block.

If so, can anyone point me to a reference/tutorial covering boost::asio
asynch reads from disk?