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Re:Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algor... by irascible on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @08:23AM (#9100333)
TimSort is supposed to have better performance on real world datasets.
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Re:Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algor... by gus_massa on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @08:59AM (#9100508)
Agree. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

The original mail with the proposal is: http://bugs.python.org/file4451/timsort.txt

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