Block sort, or block merge sort, is a sorting algorithm combining at least two merge operations with an insertion sort to arrive at O(n log n) in-place stable sorting. It gets its name from the observation that merging two sorted lists, A and B, is equivalent to breaking A into evenly sized blocks, inserting each A block into B under special rules, and merging AB pairs. One practical algorithm for O(log n) in place merging was proposed by Pok-Son Kim and Arne Kutzner in 2008.