Possible to use AJAX response data as it loads?

Possible to use AJAX response data as it loads?

I have a page which loads the HTML for a table using $.post(). Sometimes, the table will be quite large (maybe 2000 rows). Is there a way to display the content as it arrives instead of waiting for the whole thing?

It would probably be OK if this requires a synchronous request. The purpose of the page is to display the table, so it doesn't matter if nothing else can happen while it loads.