Sure, if the algorithm you want to brute force is slower, it will take longer to break it.
This is e.g. why password hashes use the slow bcrypt rather then the fast SHA-256 hashing algorithm. [https://auth0.com/blog/hashing-passwords-one-way-road-to-sec...]
A great article on IO: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-achieve-c...