Counterpoint (Score 2, Interesting)

Ken Silverman is pretty decent with assembly. He's a smart guy and could write very well optimized assembly for his time.

Every shred of C he's ever written is absolutely unmaintainable. It's just horrible.

The answer to the question "Is assembly language faster than C?" is the same as the answer to "Is C faster than assembly language?": "No." My point is that there's no magic bullet. The article was not nearly balanced enough to be considered correct.