Timsort

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  1. 1
    A sorting algorithm derived from mergesort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data.

Etymology

From Tim + sort, named after Tim Peters, who implemented it in 2002 for the Python programming language.

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insertion sortreal world

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