Only use special method to send messages to helper isolate.

tools/dom/src/native_DOMImplementation.dart

Index: tools/dom/src/native_DOMImplementation.dart
diff --git a/tools/dom/src/native_DOMImplementation.dart b/tools/dom/src/native_DOMImplementation.dart
index ccf4ba31cd2e4a7acf93f6a77fd8d4198e13153d..8b023ca3cfb8e08d7ee6cf75e5097e1db0e85977 100644
--- a/tools/dom/src/native_DOMImplementation.dart
+++ b/tools/dom/src/native_DOMImplementation.dart
@@ -132,9 +132,29 @@ class _DOMStringMap extends NativeFieldWrapperClass1 implements Map<String, Stri
   bool get isEmpty => Maps.isEmpty(this);
 }
 
-final Future<SendPort> _HELPER_ISOLATE_PORT =
+final Future<SendPort> __HELPER_ISOLATE_PORT =
     spawnDomFunction(_helperIsolateMain);
 
+// Tricky part.
+// Once _HELPER_ISOLATE_PORT gets resolved, it will still delay in .then

[vsm, 2013/04/02 16:08:31]

Extra _ prefix to match the new name.  BTW, do we really have a convention
around using an extra '_'?  Is this any more private than _TIMER_REGISTRY, etc.,
below?

[Anton Muhin, 2013/04/02 16:17:49]

It's my personal invention and probably I shouldn't use it here.

The reason: sometimes I miss a way to point out that some stuff is not supposed
to be used by other code.  Here I sometimes resort to __.  If you think I
shouldn't. I'll fix it.

On 2013/04/02 16:08:31, vsm wrote:

+// and to delay Timer.run is used. However, Timer.run will try to register
+// another Timer and here we got stuck: event cannot be posted as then
+// callback is not executed because it's delayed with timer.
+// Therefore once future is resolved, it's unsafe to call .then on it
+// in Timer code.
+SendPort __SEND_PORT;
+
+_sendToHelperIsolate(msg, SendPort replyTo) {
+  if (__SEND_PORT != null) {
+    __SEND_PORT.send(msg, replyTo);
+  } else {
+    __HELPER_ISOLATE_PORT.then((port) {
+      __SEND_PORT = port;
+      __SEND_PORT.send(msg, replyTo);
+    });
+  }
+}
+
 final _TIMER_REGISTRY = new Map<SendPort, Timer>();
 
 const _NEW_TIMER = 'NEW_TIMER';
@@ -164,9 +184,7 @@ _helperIsolateMain() {
 
 final _printClosure = window.console.log;
 final _pureIsolatePrintClosure = (s) {
-  _HELPER_ISOLATE_PORT.then((sendPort) {
-    sendPort.send([_PRINT, s]);
-  });
+  _sendToHelperIsolate([_PRINT, s]);
 };
 
 final _forwardingPrintClosure = _Utils.forwardingPrint;