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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:40 AM EDT |
TimSort was written by Tim Peters for Python. Here is a copy of the java port,
written by Joshua Bloch while he was employed by Google.
http://www.java-frameworks.com/java/openjdk/java/util/TimSort.java.html
Please note the copyright (Google), the contact info for this version (Oracle),
and the license (GPL).
The head of the timsort source file:
/*
* Copyright 2009 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
*
* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
* published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this
* particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as
provided
* by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
*
* This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
* version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
* accompanied this code).
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
* 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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*
* Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
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*/
package java.util;
/**
* A stable, adaptive, iterative mergesort that requires far fewer than
* n lg(n) comparisons when running on partially sorted arrays, while
* offering performance comparable to a traditional mergesort when run
* on random arrays. Like all proper mergesorts, this sort is stable and
* runs O(n log n) time (worst case). In the worst case, this sort requires
* temporary storage space for n/2 object references; in the best case,
* it requires only a small constant amount of space.
*
* This implementation was adapted from Tim Peters's list sort for
* Python, which is described in detail here:
*
* http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listsort.txt
*
* Tim's C code may be found here:
*
* http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listobject.c
*
* The underlying techniques are described in this paper (and may have
* even earlier origins):
*
* "Optimistic Sorting and Information Theoretic Complexity"
* Peter McIlroy
* SODA (Fourth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms),
* pp 467-474, Austin, Texas, 25-27 January 1993.
*
* While the API to this class consists solely of static methods, it is
* (privately) instantiable; a TimSort instance holds the state of an ongoing
* sort, assuming the input array is large enough to warrant the full-blown
* TimSort. Small arrays are sorted in place, using a binary insertion sort.
*
* @author Josh Bloch
*/
class TimSort<T> {
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