The writeup really emphasizes how far the Hutter Prize has fallen short of its original goals of contributing to <i>AI</i> progress. The innovations in making a smarter compressor here and beating decades of work to create an even more intelligent AI predictor here are... 'eliminating all the virtual function calls' and 'improving cache locality' and 'alternate hash-map implementations'.
Saurabh Kumar has submitted "Fast Cmix" to The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge.<p>The Judging Committee appreciates Saurabh Kumar's compliance not only with the rules of the contest but with the provision of an executable archive which makes our job easier.<p>As per the Hutter Prize Award's section of The Rules:<p>The contribution is subject to public comments for a period of at least 30 days before the prize is awarded.