Code AnalysisIntermediate 60s

Unbounded in-memory queue

What is the operational failure mode of this producer/consumer?

Starter code

q = deque()
def produce(m): q.append(m)          # fast
def consume():
    while True:
        process(q.popleft())         # slow

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