1. A computer program product for accelerating processor scheduling operations performed on objects in a parallel processing system, the computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable by the parallel processing system to cause the parallel processing system to perform a method comprising: identifying, by the parallel processing system, a plurality of operations to perform on a plurality of objects, wherein each of the plurality of objects is associated with a respective file pathname and wherein at least one of the operations has a scheduling dependency on another operation; generating, by the parallel processing system, a respective numeric value for each of the plurality of objects by at least: generating a respective depth value of the respective file pathname for each of the plurality of objects; generating a respective hash value of the respective file pathname for each of the plurality of objects using a hash function; and generating the respective numeric value for each of the plurality of objects by adding together the respective depth value and the respective hash value for each of the plurality of objects; augmenting, by the parallel processing system, respective metadata of each of the plurality of objects using the respective numeric value; scheduling, by the parallel processing system, the operations to perform on the objects based on the respective numeric values of the plurality of objects and the scheduling dependency, wherein the plurality of objects are sorted based on the respective numeric value associated with the respective object of the plurality of objects; and wherein the scheduling and sorting increase processing speed of the file based operations on the parallel processing system by minimizing conflicting updates to shared structures.