No, bars are set to one-hour, but you still acquire every tick via the tick() function. This is because the TICKS flags was set at the top of run().

Flags are documented here:
https://manual.zorro-project.com/mode.htm

Bars vs ticks:
https://zorro-project.com/manual/en/bars.htm

tick() function:
https://zorro-project.com/manual/en/tick.htm

Pro tip: You can make the benchmark even faster by removing the TICKS flag. This brings it down from 1.0 seconds to about 0.25 seconds on my CPU.