That'd be like saying your end user should understand cache misses, however if you're starting a car design/repair shop you might want to know about how transmissions work.
The primary reason for dropping down to native is to get better performance. If you're going to do that you'll leave 10x-50x performance on the table if you don't understand cache misses, prefetching and the other things that manual memory placement open up.
The primary reason for dropping down to native is to get better performance. If you're going to do that you'll leave 10x-50x performance on the table if you don't understand cache misses, prefetching and the other things that manual memory placement open up.