I'm not sure it's an entirely apt comparison to put inefficient assembly programmers up against efficient C programmers. It may be much more difficult to get a

I'm not sure it's an entirely apt comparison to put inefficient assembly programmers up against efficient C programmers. It may be much more difficult to get a skilled assembly programmer than it is to get a skilled C programmer, and the expectations of the assembly programmer may indeed be higher on a day-to-day basis, but saying C is faster than assembly because "Coder X" can write faster code in C doesn't really work for me.