- Revert r24564 and r24563 due to unexplained malloc corruption.

runtime/lib/object_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 Object {
 
-  // Helpers used to implement hashCode. If a hashCode is used, we remember it
-  // in a weak table in the VM. A new hashCode value is calculated using a
+  // Helpers used to implement hashCode. If a hashCode is used we remember it
+  // using an Expando object. A new hashCode value is calculated using a Random
   // number generator.
-  static final _hashCodeRnd = new Random();
-
-  static _getHash(obj) native "Object_getHash";
-  static _setHash(obj, hash) native "Object_setHash";
+  static Expando _hashCodeExp = new Expando("Object.hashCode");
+  static Random _hashCodeRnd = new Random();
 
   /* patch */ int get hashCode {
     if (this == null) {
       return 2011;  // The year Dart was announced and a prime.
     }
-    var result = _getHash(this);
-    if (result == 0) {
-      // We want the hash to be a Smi value greater than 0.
-      result = _hashCodeRnd.nextInt(0x40000000);
-      while (result == 0) {
-        result = _hashCodeRnd.nextInt(0x40000000);
-      }
-      _setHash(this, result);
+    var result = _hashCodeExp[this];
+    if (result == null) {
+      result = _hashCodeRnd.nextInt(0x40000000);  // Stay in Smi range.
+      _hashCodeExp[this] = result;
     }
     return result;
   }
 
   /* patch */ String toString() native "Object_toString";
   // A statically dispatched version of Object.toString.
   static String _toString(obj) native "Object_toString";
 
   _noSuchMethod(bool isMethod,
                 String memberName,
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   static _symbolMapToStringMap(Map<Symbol, dynamic> map) {
     var result = new Map<String, dynamic>();
     map.forEach((Symbol key, value) {
       result[_collection_dev.Symbol.getName(key)] = value;
     });
     return result;
   }
 
   int get _cid native "Object_cid";
 }