Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word TIMSORT

Definitions of TIMSORT

1. (comptheory) A sorting algorithm derived from mergesort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data.

Examples of Using TIMSORT in a Sentence

• If large lists must be sorted at high speed for a given application, timsort is a better choice; however, if minimizing the memory footprint of the sorting is more important, bubble sort is a better choice.
• More performant algorithms such as quicksort, merge sort, or timsort are used by the sorting libraries built into popular programming languages such as Python and Java.
• Other examples of adaptive sorting algorithms are adaptive heap sort, adaptive merge sort, patience sort, Shellsort, smoothsort, splaysort, Timsort, and Cartesian tree sorting.

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