Top "Timsort" questions

"Comparison method violates its general contract!" - TimSort and GridLayout

I made a color palette with a jPanel and a JLabel array in it. At first it worked well, but …

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Comparison between timsort and quicksort

Why is it that I mostly hear about Quicksort being the fastest overall sorting algorithm when Timsort (according to wikipedia) …

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Is Java 7 using Tim Sort for the Method Arrays.Sort?

I can't find the documentation of Java 7, I can only find about the Java 6, which is still quick or merge. …

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Python 3 list sorting with a tie-breaker

I have seen a lot of similar questions here but none of them so far have answered the question directly, …

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Why isn't smoothsort more common?

From reading this article from Wikipedia on sorting algorithms, it would seem that smoothsort is the best sorting algorithm there …

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Grokking Timsort

There's a (relatively) new sort on the block called Timsort. It's been used as Python's list.sort, and is now …

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