If you want something that can quickly create an archive and that actually works all the time, you need LHA.
Not very quick nor working all the time. I was trying to create a big archive from about 40k files totaling 800M, and after 40 minutes on a 50MHz 68030 LHA hadn't even reported on the first file, but had instead managed to corrupt memory and crash AmigaOS.
So, if anyone's doing big archives you might want to look at yet another option.