# Timsort

> hybrid sorting algorithm based on insertion sort and merge sort

**Wikidata**: [Q942403](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942403)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/timsort


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://v8.dev/blog/array-sort)
3. [2011](http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026837.html)
4. [Source](http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9467/)
5. Patience is a virtue: revisiting merge and sort on modern processors