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This has been my life experience with things written in C/C++, so speed doesn't matter. Or, I guess from an alternative perspective, it ran very fast, but exited very fast, too :-D

  $ ./objdir/garlic $the_jar_file -o out-dir -t $(nproc)
  Progress : 85 (1024)Segmentation fault: 11

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Sorry for giving you a bad experience. Please provide the jar file or class file. I hope I can fix it as soon as possible.

Is it? This is my experience with Python. The C/C++ programs I use daily never seem to crash (Linux, bash, terminals, X, firefox, vim, etc.). It must be years ago one of those programs crashed while I used it.

Also a segfault IS the protection layer intervening, it is equivalent to a exception in other languages. The real problem is, when there is no segfault.

This is absolutely true. But even this does not happen in the software I use every day. Software written is C is definitely the most stable I use - by far. That there are people running around claiming that it is impossible to write stable software in C and it crashes all the time due to bugs is rather unfortunate, as it is far from the truth.

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