I have already a few months a new MacBook Pro, but I noticed that Java applications (read: webstart appliciations) where starting a lot slower than on my old macbook.
I thought it was maybe I had a wrong dongle or something, but that was not the case.
While reading the post you mentioned, I was wondering why this would only help the new MacBook Pro.
I’ve tried this on my Mid 2014 Mac and first thing I noticed was the insane improvement in speed while launching the debug (smart) client from Eclipse.
First time launch always took forever, now it’s almost instant.
So, I guess this fix would benefit all developers on Mac