Add Object.hashCodeOf to get the default hashCode of an object.

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
   // number generator.
   static final _hashCodeRnd = new Random();
 
   static _getHash(obj) native "Object_getHash";
   static _setHash(obj, hash) native "Object_setHash";
 
-  /* patch */ int get hashCode {
-    var result = _getHash(this);
+  /* patch */ int get hashCode => _hashCodeOf(this);
+
+  /* patch */ static int hashCodeOf(Object object) {
+    // Num doesn't use identity hash for hashCode, and this method must be

[Ivan Posva, 2013/09/24 06:22:11]

I have read this comment several times and it still does not make much sense to
me. But as noted below it can be entirely avoided.

+    // consistent with `identical`.
+    // Bool and Null overrides hashCode only in a patch.
+    if (object is num || object is bool || object == null) {
+      return object.hashCode;
+    }
+    return _hashCodeOf(object);
+  }
+
+  static int _hashCodeOf(Object object) {

[Ivan Posva, 2013/09/24 06:22:11]

Please leave this as a private dynamic method on Object and override it where
needed (e.g. _Double, and friends). This will avoid the entirely unnecessary
type checks above as dynamic dispatch will deal with the type appropriately.

+    var result = _getHash(object);
     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);
+      _setHash(object, 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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     });
     return result;
   }
 
   int get _cid native "Object_cid";
 
   _leftShiftWithMask32(count, mask)  {
     return (this << count) & mask;
   }
 }