Change new List(n) to return fixed length list.

runtime/lib/array_patch.dart

Index: runtime/lib/array_patch.dart
diff --git a/runtime/lib/array_patch.dart b/runtime/lib/array_patch.dart
index da5bf73839a3c447543a694c44f5e367c7f9e662..635b46075ed57c784eef6a5ccea6a4cdda30ca76 100644
--- a/runtime/lib/array_patch.dart
+++ b/runtime/lib/array_patch.dart
@@ -6,15 +6,16 @@
 // returns a _GrowableObjectArray if length is null, otherwise returns
 // fixed size array.
 patch class List<E> {
-  /* patch */ factory List([int length = 0]) {
+  /* patch */ factory List([int length]) {
+    if (!?length) return new _GrowableObjectArray<E>(0);
     if ((length is! int) || (length < 0)) {

[Ivan Posva, 2013/02/27 18:14:36]

Why do we still do manual type checking here?

[floitsch, 2013/02/28 09:41:58]

1) because we didn't go through code to remove checks.
2) we do this check in dart2js, to avoid passing something bad to JS. This way
these two implementations are consistent.

       _throwArgumentError(length);
     }
-    _GrowableObjectArray<E> result = new _GrowableObjectArray<E>(length);
+    _ObjectArray<E> result = new _ObjectArray<E>(length);
     return result;
   }
 
-  /* patch */ factory List.fixedLength(int length, {E fill: null}) {
+  /* patch */ factory List.filled(int length, E fill) {
     if ((length is! int) || (length < 0)) {
       _throwArgumentError(length);
     }