Big merge from experimental to bleeding edge.

tools/dom/src/Serialization.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 file for the dart:isolate library.
 
 part of html;
 
 /********************************************************
   Inserted from lib/isolate/serialization.dart
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     // TODO(floitsch): we are losing the generic type.
     return ['list', id, jsArray];
   }
 
   visitMap(Map map) {
     int copyId = _visited[map];
     if (copyId != null) return ['ref', copyId];
 
     int id = _nextFreeRefId++;
     _visited[map] = id;
-    var keys = _serializeList(map.keys);
-    var values = _serializeList(map.values);
+    var keys = _serializeList(map.keys.toList());
+    var values = _serializeList(map.values.toList());
     // TODO(floitsch): we are losing the generic type.
     return ['map', id, keys, values];
   }
 
   _serializeList(List list) {
     int len = list.length;
-    var result = new List(len);
+    var result = new List.fixedLength(len);
     for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
       result[i] = _dispatch(list[i]);
     }
     return result;
   }
 }
 
 /** Deserializes arrays created with [_Serializer]. */
 abstract class _Deserializer {
   Map<int, dynamic> _deserialized;
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   }
 
   deserializeSendPort(List x);
 
   deserializeObject(List x) {
     // TODO(floitsch): Use real exception (which one?).
     throw "Unexpected serialized object";
   }
 }