fix space leak by including writing out shrunken images in parallelized operation #140
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as discussed in the comment, the old approach would hold all shrunken images in memory at once, before writing any of them to disk. the new approach permits each shrunken image to be written to disk as soon as it's ready.
this source of the space leak and the solution was suggested by claude.ai.
fixes #98