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“you’ve never heard of” is a bit presumptuous. I’ve heard of it a lot, nothing but good things.

• hangonhn 4y ago
  I get annoyed with titles like that. "Never heard of", "Didn't know.", etc. I know people want clicks but it sometimes feel normal person to person courtesy aren't valued when the medium is the Internet. It's especially "dangerous" in this case because the people who would even care about sorting algorithms are going to contain a subset of people who knows a lot about sorting. Those people are likely to know about Timsort. It's like going to a heart surgery conference and having a presentation about "This one heart surgery method you never knew about." Good chance at least a few people in the audience would know and may have invented it.
• Beldin 4y ago
  Then I have an interesting tidbit for you: its sorting wasn't 100% correct. Should be fixed now though. http://www.envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/ http://www.envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-pyth...
  • pizlonator 4y ago
    I had heard of that! I just don’t count a bug as a bad thing. Maybe the opposite. Software that has no bugs usually achieves this feat by not having any users. Timsort has tons of users, hence tons of attention, hence someone found a bug. That’s great!
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