Which is the algorithm implemented in Array.sort?

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I’m trying to figure out which algorithm kaolin uses for sorting, but I can’t find any clear answer for that.

And I wanted to know if any other sort of algorithms function exists or if we should implement others alogthrims.

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I guess that depends on the target and even runtime. Kotlin probably doesn’t implement sorting by itself, but uses underlying stdlib. And even if asking specifically about JVM or JS, I think this is still not that trivial, because different JVM implementations / JS engines could use different algorithms for sorting. I believe JVM generally uses some variations of either quicksort or mergesort.

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The documentation says that it is a stable sort, so it is not quicksort.

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Depending on what do you sort. Primitives don’t have identity, so there is no concept of stable/unstable sorting. Documentation for sorting of arrays here: Arrays (Java SE 17 & JDK 17) says it is “Dual-Pivot Quicksort” for primitives and “stable, adaptive, iterative mergesort” or “TimSort” for objects.

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Why does it matter to you?

It’s rather unlikely but it all depends on what is that you’re doing