I've modified the sample from tour.dlang.org to calculate the md5 digest of the files in a directory using std.parallelism.

When I run this on a dir with huge number of files, I get:

core.exception.OutOfMemoryError@src/core/exception.d(696): Memory allocation failed

Since dirEntries returns a range, I thought std.parallelism.parallel can make use of that without loading the entire file list into the memory.

What am I doing wrong here? Is there a way to achieve what I'm expecting?

```
import std.digest.md;
import std.stdio: writeln;
import std.file;
import std.algorithm;
import std.parallelism;

void printUsage()
{
writeln("Loops through a given directory and calculates the md5 digest of each file encountered.");
    writeln("Usage: md <dirname>");
}

void safePrint(T...)(T args)
{
    synchronized
    {
        import std.stdio : writeln;
        writeln(args);
    }
}

void main(string[] args)
{
    if (args.length != 2)
        return printUsage;

foreach (d; parallel(dirEntries(args[1], SpanMode.depth).filter!(f => f.isFile), 1))
    {
        auto md5 = new MD5Digest();
        md5.reset();
        auto data = cast(const(ubyte)[]) read(d.name);
        md5.put(data);
        auto hash = md5.finish();
        import std.array;
        string[] t = split(d.name, '/');
safePrint(toHexString!(LetterCase.lower)(hash), " ", t[$-1]);
    }
}
```

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