Brandon Skerritt

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Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm

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Timsort (2019)

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Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia. Timsort 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.