Generative Agents Run (n25) SLOW. Is the bottleneck computer power or OpenAI API?

[dafrontman]

Hardware: Lenovo Laptop Intel Core i7 Nvidia Geforce RTX4060
OpenAI LLM: GPT-3.5-turbo-0125
Tokens: 6.6 million
Requests: 13,705
Cost: $3.68

Forked Simulation: base_the_ville_n25
New Simulation: test5
Enter Option: run 8640
Results: FORCED STOP (CTRL-C) at 13 HOURS run-time!!! Only completed 3,665 steps!!!

Execution Speed:
3665 steps x 10 = 36650 seconds (10 HOURS) simulation time
13 HOURS = 46,800 seconds real time
1:1.27 difference BUT it was getting slower as time went on

Steps were fast while the NPCs were sleeping at the beginning but
once they woke up and became active the simulation bogged down.
Supposed to complete 8640 steps but did not. Probably would've taken
WELL over 24hrs maybe 36 or 48 to complete.