Dual Pivot Quicksort     Sorting data is one of the most fundamental problems in Computer Science, especially if the arranging objects are primitive ones, such as integers, bytes, floats, etc. Since sorting methods play an important role in the operation of computers and other data processing systems, there has been an interest in seeking new algorithms better than the existing ones. We compare sorting methods by the number of the most "expensive" operations, which influence on effectiveness of the sorting techniques, — comparisons and swaps. Quicksort algorithm is an effective and wide-spread sorting procedure with C*n *ln(n) operations, where n is the size of the arranged array. The problem is to find an algorithm with the least coefficient C. There were many attempts to improve the classical variant of the Quicksort algorithm     http://iaroslavski.narod.ru/quicksort/DualPivotQuicksort.pdf     tags: sort quicksort Timsort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia     Timsort is a hybrid sorting algorithm derived from merge sort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data. It was invented by Tim Peters in 2002, for use in versions 2.3 and later of the Python programming language, and may soon be used in Java as well [1].     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort     tags: sort SourceForge.net: Burstsort     Copy-Burstsort is a sorting algorithm for strings that is cache-efficient. Burstsort and its variants are much faster than Quicksort and Radixsort especially on large datasets. Copy-Burstsort works best for sorting short strings such as genomes and words     http://sourceforge.net/projects/burstsort/?abmode=1     tags: sort burstsort zobel Merge sort (Python) - LiteratePrograms     http://en.literateprograms.org/Merge_sort_(Python)     tags: python sort mergesort ir BrainJar.com: Table Sort     http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/tablesort/     tags: javascript table sort Sortable Table (WebFX)     http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/sortabletable/sortabletable.html     tags: javascript table sort sorttable: Make all your tables sortable     http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/     tags: dhtml sort table ui web javascript