Will knowledge of pure C and assembler help a java programmer?

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Will knowledge of pure C and assembler help a java programmer?

Answer 1

How else to help!
Not to mention the fact that you will tritely understand what is happening "under the hood" and why it is impossible to frivolously deal with int - long - float - double, you may well come across such things as JIT or processor cache, which you can understand without understanding asm is rather difficult.
Without understanding the basics (which are asm and C), you can only memorize “how you can and how you can’t” like a monkey and hope that the right prayer will be remembered at the right time :)

Answer 2

C is needed for a Java programmer, because JNI.
And in some areas (like Android) JNI is almost mandatory.

Answer 3

Hardly: do you lack pointers and debugging in Java machine codes?