Timsort is a hybrid sorting algorithm derived from merge sort and insertion sort. It is designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data. The algorithm was developed by Tim Peters in 2002 for use in the Python programming language, and it is the default sorting algorithm in Python's built-in `sorted()` function and the `list.sort()` method. Timsort is also used in Java's Arrays.sort() for objects.
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