It has been quite some time since I use honeybee (legacy version) and this is my first time using the latest version. Usually, it does not take this long for a simple analysis. Although the results came out fine.
It’s probably worth it for you to invest some time in learning about Radiance Parameters. They are wholly responsible for how quick the ray tracing runs and how accurate the results are.
For example, I can get your simple example to run in 11 seconds if I want:
I used a legacy version of honeybee and ladybug before and always used rad parameters. Since this is the first time I use the updated honeybee, there are quite a lot of changes happening and in the midst of confusion I forgot to use that
It is working as usual now,