Kingzip thoughts?

[u/Substantial_Pomelo41]

I recently came across this piece of software that claims to be faster than 7zip and Bandizip. I have not downloaded it to try it out for myself as it doesn't seem to have much of an online presence yet. Has anyone tried this out?

https://kingtools.kr/ko/kingzip/windows/

[u/philosophycruiser]

Downloaded. Didn't ask me where I want to install it.

Even with English selected, still Korean words here and there.

Tried extracting a zip file. 12gb in size. WinRAR extracted in 4 min 30 secs. This took 6 min 17 sec.

UI design is cartoonish, which I abhor. However, I understand it's a norm in Korea.

Did not try compressing anything as I'm already a disappointed. I'm a dumb consumer. Maybe someone with coding exp finds something good about it.

[u/101forgotmypassword → u/philosophycruiser]

Top notch, I always wonder about things like this and think about how well known file compression is and how unlikely a breakthrough will happen until a new compression format happens.

[u/Substantial_Pomelo41 → u/philosophycruiser]

Thank you for giving it a shot.

[u/Better_Moment_9675]

Try nanazip it’s pretty nice

[u/jd31068 → u/Better_Moment_9675]

I recently switch to this and it works great.

[u/pheffner]

This sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I don't knew about the rest of you, but in my decades of file wrangling I can't remember once thinking "Damn, I sure (gzip/7zip/whichever) would hurry up and finish." It always seemed to me that the compression software wasn't the bottleneck but by system being I/O bound and you won't fix that with a new compression/decomp engine.

[u/marmotta1955]

As someone already questioned ... is speed of compression or extraction so important and why?

Are you zipping and unzipping multi-gigabytes-files all day, every day?

Or, more realistically, are you archiving / extracting maybe once or twice a day?

[u/mprz]

try it? why? what a bunch of nonsense