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Is Assembly or C faster in practice?

Sure, you can do a lot of optimalisations if you code directly in Assembly, but gcc does a lot of optimalisations automagically. So that got me wondering, who generally does it the best? A human or a compiler?
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For 99.9% of developers, compiled C code will be faster because most people don't have the skills to extract high performance out of assembly. Hell, most developers don't have the skills to extract high performance out of C. 

For those 1/1000 developers, it is possible to write some key portions of the code in assembly and get higher performance. It's really important to know that this usually isn't because the human is "better" at assembly programming. A human can make assumptions about how the program will be used that enables optimizations. Things like valid arguments, ranges of inputs, etc.