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After rewriting Collections.sort() just for the fun of it, the claim that "an hour of a developer's time is a lot more expensive than an hour of a high-performance AWS super-duper-cluster instance" isn't all that convincing. If you're going to rewrite sort at all, you should take time to do it right, and the Stream-based version isn't it.


The present version of Collections.sort is actually a Timsort[1] for non-primitives. [1]:http://bugs.python.org/file4451/timsort.txt




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