The array object in the Java programming language supports a built-in method for sorting objects. An array of strings named "words," for example, can be sorted by calling the "Arrays.sort(words ...

Java has long had a built-in Arrays.sort method, and Collections.sort allows for sorting by natural order or using a custom comparator. However, these approaches are destructive, meaning they ...

On my machine, calling Arrays.sort on an array of 200,000 strings takes 490ms on average. An array of 400,000 strings is sorted in 1290ms — an increase in running time by factor of about 2.6 ...