Big merge from experimental to bleeding edge.

runtime/bin/socket_patch.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 patch class ServerSocket {
   /* patch */ factory ServerSocket(String bindAddress, int port, int backlog) {
     return new _ServerSocket(bindAddress, port, backlog);
   }
 }
 
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   static const int _LISTENING_SOCKET = 16;
   static const int _PIPE = 17;
 
   static const int _FIRST_EVENT = _IN_EVENT;
   static const int _LAST_EVENT = _CLOSE_EVENT;
 
   static const int _FIRST_COMMAND = _CLOSE_COMMAND;
   static const int _LAST_COMMAND = _SHUTDOWN_WRITE_COMMAND;
 
   _SocketBase () {
-    _handlerMap = new List(_LAST_EVENT + 1);
+    _handlerMap = new List.fixedLength(_LAST_EVENT + 1);
     _handlerMask = 0;
     _canActivateHandlers = true;
     _closed = true;
     _EventHandler._start();
     _hashCode = _nextHashCode;
     _nextHashCode = (_nextHashCode + 1) & 0xFFFFFFF;
   }
 
   // Multiplexes socket events to the socket handlers.
   void _multiplex(int event_mask) {
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 class _Socket extends _SocketBase implements Socket {
   static const HOST_NAME_LOOKUP = 0;
 
   // Constructs a new socket. During the construction an asynchronous
   // host name lookup is initiated. The returned socket is not yet
   // connected but ready for registration of callbacks.
   factory _Socket(String host, int port) {
     Socket socket = new _Socket._internal();
     _ensureSocketService();
-    List request = new List(2);
+    List request = new List.fixedLength(2);
     request[0] = HOST_NAME_LOOKUP;
     request[1] = host;
     _socketService.call(request).then((response) {
       if (socket._isErrorResponse(response)) {
         socket._reportError(response, "Failed host name lookup");
       } else{
         var result = socket._createConnect(response, port);
         if (result is OSError) {
           socket.close();
           socket._reportError(result, "Connection failed");
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   bool _seenFirstOutEvent = false;
   bool _pipe = false;
   Function _clientConnectHandler;
   Function _clientWriteHandler;
   _SocketInputStream _inputStream;
   _SocketOutputStream _outputStream;
   String _remoteHost;
   int _remotePort;
   static SendPort _socketService;
 }