Question about Hutter Prize: Why anyone is interested in the size of comp.exe?

[Emil Enchev]

What does the size of this comp.exe file matter at all and why they want this compression program on first place?

[Gotty]

http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#addcomp

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5. Compression size: If we were to limit only the compute time of the compressor C and not its size L(C), one could simply submit the archive A prefixed with a tiny program to output A verbatim, ignoring input enwik9. This formally satisfies the criteria of being a compressor, but with all the compute hidden in producing A in advance.