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Glidesort with Orson Peters

Rustacean Station

CHAPTER

The Importance of Merge Sorting in Python

Python was the original place where one of these, they're called natural merge sort. It's the first place where it really got popularized in Tim sort in Python precisely because doing this extra effort to minimize the amount of comparisons as much as possible was really worth it for Python. So that's why Python never even used a quick sort. Glide sort is within a couple percentage points in terms of comparisons used compared to what Python would do. That might not be true anymore since I adopted my new pivot selection scheme.

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