Yes
Yet it also finds the odd thing that isn't very intuitive but leads to marked improvements I never would have uncovered
steve_adams_86 on Hacker News
slowed the path down by 12%
In the thread “Expanding Project Glasswing”, replying to this comment
Helped: Finding non-intuitive optimizations that humans would not discover.
Got in the way: Suggested float32 optimization that actually slowed performance due to casting.
… It turned out the library we have to use casts to float64 anyway, so the work of casting to 32 then to 64 rather than staying at 64 actually slowed the path down by 12%. Yet it also finds the odd thing that isn't very intuitive but leads to marked improvements I never would have uncovered because... Well, as a human with only 24 hours in a day, there's no way I'll turn over every leaf and find these items on my own. …