Hutter Prize Submission 2021a: STARLIT and cmix (2021)

Context: This is the fifth winner (14 Jul 2021) of this ongoing lossless data compression contest.

http://prize.hutter1.net/

Tangentially related: The Large Text Compression Benchmark (same target data files, but less restrictions than the Hutter Prize) is currently being led by an AI (Transformer) powered algorithm from Fabrice "QEMU, TCC, and FFMPEG" Bellard.

http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html https://bellard.org/nncp/