The following is with Zorro 2.34.5 beta:

With Benchmark script as is I get 1.317 sec.

When I change the BarPeriod from 60 to 1 minute in the same script, time goes up to 15.205 sec.

Also, the actual running time as per my stop watch is lot higher, so I assume the time is only capturing time spent for run() start and end.

"Test your strategies with the world's fastest tick-level backtester (2 seconds for 10 years) in high accuracy - including commissions, swaps, spreads, slippage, margins, interest, market hours, and holidays"

Does it mean the above is misleading as its not actually running a tick level tests but just once every hour for the purpose of the testing?