Sort algorithm in Swift Foundation is TimSort (Insertion Sort + Merge Sort)
I wrote posts about Insertion Sort and Merge Sort.
You can check How to implement sorting algorithm in Swift


You can check the full source code at here
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/stdlib/public/core/Sort.swift
TimSort
Sorts the elements of this buffer according to
areInIncreasingOrder,
using a stable, adaptive merge sort.
The adaptive algorithm used is Timsort, modified to perform a straight
merge of the elements using a temporary buffer.https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/stdlib/public/core/Sort.swift
Timsort is a hybrid, stable sorting algorithm, derived from merge sort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data. It was implemented by Tim Peters in 2002 for use in the Python programming language. The algorithm finds subsequences of the data that are already ordered (runs) and uses them to sort the remainder more efficiently. This is done by merging runs until certain criteria are fulfilled. Timsort was Python’s standard sorting algorithm from version 2.3 to version 3.10,[5] and is used to sort arrays of non-primitive type in Java SE 7,[6] on the Android platform,[7] in GNU Octave,[8] on V8,[9] Swift,[10] and inspired the sorting algorithm used in Rust.[11]
It uses techniques from Peter McIlroy’s 1993 paper “Optimistic Sorting and Information Theoretic Complexity”.

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