I have looked into traversing the working directory in parallel either
by a recursive or an iterative algorithm. The recursive approach won quite
decisively both in terms of performance and code readability.
You can look at my experiment here:
https://heptapod.octobus.net/Alphare/rayon-recursive-traversal
The chance of a stack overflow happening because the directories get too nested
seems slim.
This change does not yet do anything in parallel.