„liboctave/util/oct-sort.cc”. Mercurial repository of Octave source code. Lines 23-25 of the initial comment block. Приступљено 18. 2. 2013. „Code stolen in large part from Python's, listobject.c, which itself had no license header. However, thanks to Tim Peters for the parts of the code I ripped-off.”
Peters, Tim. „[Python-Dev] Sorting”. Python Developers Mailinglist. Приступљено 24. 2. 2011. „[Timsort] also has good aspects: It's stable (items that compare equal retain their relative order, so, e.g., if you sort first on zip code, and a second time on name, people with the same name still appear in order of increasing zip code; this is important in apps that, e.g., refine the results of queries based on user input). ... It has no bad cases (O(N log N) is worst case; N-1 compares is best).”