use staticfiles finders to find media files if STATIC_URL is defined
Django 1.3 introduces staticfiles to store static app-specific media files. The files can be located in various locations around your project that you can define through your STATICFILES_FINDERS and STATICFILES_DIRS settings. This change uses the staticfiles finder to find the media files.
In my opinion, you shouldn't be doing this in production, because you should be using collectstatic and serving static files through your HTTP server or a static file service and not through Django itself. Not only is efficiency an issue, but this patch would only provide unneeded extra confusion to developers in debug mode - so, I believe that it is not helpful in production or debug environments.