#timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of
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Photo by Marc Sendra martorell on UnsplashTimsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia.Image of Tim Peter from hereTimsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. Tim Peters created Timsort for the Python #programming language in 2001. Timsort first analyses the list it is trying to sort and then chooses an approach based on the analysis of the list.Since the algorithm has been invented it has been used as the default sorting algorithm in Python, Java, the Android Platform, and in versions of GNU.Timsort’s big O notation is O(n log n). To learn about Big O notation, read this.From hereTimsort’s sorting time is the same as Mergesort, which is faster than most of the (...)
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