Yes, to some extent, and some of the examples are astounding: E.g., I wrote some simple C code for solving systems of linear equations, and for 20 equations in

Yes, to some extent, and some of the examples are astounding: E.g., I wrote some simple C code for solving systems of linear equations, and for 20 equations in 20 unknowns I got 10,000 solutions a second on a 1.8 GHz single core processor. Fantastic.