Review: INNO SETUP Package and Deployment software

[Demon]

SETUP.EXE using INNO SETUP p9 by Robert H, on Flickr

SETUP.EXE using INNO SETUP p10 by Robert H, on Flickr

Flickr is MUCH faster and easier to use than Photobucket for online image storage.

[Demon]

First, I have to say I generated 1,000 keys, 4 columns of 4 characters each, upper case/numbers, in a blink of an eye. Note that I have an i7-6700K running at 4.0Ghz with 32GB RAM running at 3200Mhz and SSDs for pagefiles.

Just for S***s 'n giggles I generated 1,000,000 keys, 100 columns of 100 characters each, upper case/numbers, just because the program supports it. It ran for over 5 minutes and ran out of memory with barely 1/10th through.

So I figured let's try 100,000 keys, 100 columns of 100 characters each, upper case/numbers/lower case, and see what happens. I opened Task Manager to monitor memory usage, just under 1/4 through and slowly creeping past 3GB.

...just past 1/2 way after 12 minutes using 4.5GB of RAM. BOOM!!! Out of memory, something else must be busting, maybe paging or temporary files?

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So let's try a realistic 1,000,000 keys, 5 columns of 4 characters each, upper case/numbers/lower case. Finished under 1 minute!

So I removed the lower case 'cause I find them annoying to enter, 1,000,000 keys, 5 columns of 4 characters each, upper case/numbers. Finished under 40 seconds!

The next step is to save to a text (or CSV) file; done in a flash, 24.7MB text file.

The last step in the process is to generate the encrypted license file; finished after 8 minutes, 152MB in size.

Serial Key Generator is pretty awesome too.