diff --git a/src/Cargo.lock b/src/Cargo.lock
index 3108163..39706b2 100644
--- a/src/Cargo.lock
+++ b/src/Cargo.lock
@@ -1486,6 +1486,7 @@ name = "obidebruinj"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
+ "crossbeam-channel",
  "hashbrown 0.14.5",
  "obifastwrite",
  "obikseq",
diff --git a/src/obidebruinj/Cargo.toml b/src/obidebruinj/Cargo.toml
index acbc742..feb5848 100644
--- a/src/obidebruinj/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/obidebruinj/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ obikseq = { path = "../obikseq" }
 obifastwrite = { path = "../obifastwrite" }
 ahash = "0.8"
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["rayon"] }
-rayon     = "1"
+rayon              = "1"
+crossbeam-channel  = "0.5"
 xxhash-rust = { version = "0.8.15", features = ["xxh3", "const_xxh3"] }
 tracing    = "0.1"
 
diff --git a/src/obidebruinj/src/debruijn.rs b/src/obidebruinj/src/debruijn.rs
index 865567e..ed52c4d 100644
--- a/src/obidebruinj/src/debruijn.rs
+++ b/src/obidebruinj/src/debruijn.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use obikseq::{CanonicalKmer, Sequence};
 use rayon::iter::{IntoParallelRefIterator, ParallelIterator};
 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::fmt;
+use crossbeam_channel;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU8, Ordering};
 use xxhash_rust::xxh3::Xxh3Builder;
 use std::time::Instant;
@@ -454,24 +455,30 @@ impl GraphDeBruijn {
         F: FnMut(&[u8]) -> Result<(), E> + Send,
     {
         thread_local! {
-            static BUF: std::cell::RefCell<Vec<u8>> = RefCell::new(Vec::with_capacity(4096));
+            static BUF: RefCell<Vec<u8>> = RefCell::new(Vec::with_capacity(4096));
         }
-        let error = std::sync::Mutex::new(None::<E>);
-        let f = std::sync::Mutex::new(f);
-        self.for_each_unitig(|iter| {
-            if error.lock().unwrap().is_some() {
-                return;
-            }
-            BUF.with(|buf| {
-                let mut buf = buf.borrow_mut();
-                buf.clear();
-                buf.extend(iter);
-                if let Err(e) = f.lock().unwrap()(&buf) {
-                    *error.lock().unwrap() = Some(e);
+        let (tx, rx) = crossbeam_channel::bounded::<Vec<u8>>(rayon::current_num_threads() * 256);
+        std::thread::scope(|s| {
+            let writer = s.spawn(move || -> Result<(), E> {
+                let mut f = f;
+                for nucs in rx {
+                    f(&nucs)?;
                 }
+                Ok(())
             });
-        });
-        error.into_inner().unwrap().map_or(Ok(()), Err)
+            self.for_each_unitig(|iter| {
+                BUF.with(|buf| {
+                    let mut buf = buf.borrow_mut();
+                    buf.clear();
+                    buf.extend(iter);
+                    let to_send = buf.clone();
+                    buf.clear();
+                    tx.send(to_send).ok();
+                });
+            });
+            drop(tx);
+            writer.join().expect("writer thread panicked")
+        })
     }
 
     pub fn len(&self) -> usize {