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[hayd]

Time Peters wrote Timsort for python https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

I think quite a few languages adopted it as their default sort.

[andrewf → hayd]

Java's standard lib uses Timsort for sorting Object[], and quicksort for arrays of primatives.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4018332/is-java-7-using-t...

[vram22 → hayd]

Ah, I remembered his name, but had forgotten that it was called Timsort, thanks.

Interesting that others also used it.