The element threshold for switching to the simple insertion sort was 16.

Thus items at the leaves are likely quite unordered, which would cause insertion sort to take a long time.

Insertion sort is then applied to the classified set.

For example, if the run length is smaller than a certain value, insertion sort is used.

Insertion sort if the priority queue is implemented with an ordered array.

In practice the algorithm can run as fast as Insertion sort.

The largely ordered array is finally sorted with insertion sort.

The final insertion sort can run relatively quickly.

Thus, when the bins get small, other sorting algorithms should be used, such as Insertion sort.

Insertion sort applied to a list of n elements, assumed to be all different and initially in random order.

Since insertion sort would do all the sorting by itself, the two passes with build heap only save it work, which could be significant.

Keys are placed into each subarray using insertion sort.

Consider performing insertion sort on n numbers on a random access machine.

The two graphs show the performance of library sort and insertion sort for the same inputs.

It improves upon bubble sort and insertion sort by moving out of order elements more than one position at a time.

Insertion sort is very similar to selection sort.

In both cases insertion sort works efficiently.

After this, the heap and string properties must be restored, which is usually done via a variant of insertion sort.

The average case is also quadratic, which makes insertion sort impractical for sorting large arrays.

With this optimization, the gnome sort would become a variant of the insertion sort.

Sinking sort is correctly an alias for insertion sort.

Bubble sort and insertion sort can be interpreted as particular instances of this procedure to put a sequence into order.

The size of list for which insertion sort has the advantage varies by environment and implementation, but is typically between eight and twenty elements.

The most common variant of insertion sort, which operates on arrays, can be described as follows:

For insertion sort, this is .