Manually inline fixed-size list's forEach, to make it possible for the VM to optimize.

runtime/lib/array.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.
 
 
 // TODO(srdjan): Use shared array implementation.
 class _List<E> implements List<E> {
 
   factory _List(length) native "List_allocate";
 
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     return result;
   }
 
   // Iterable interface.
 
   bool contains(Object element) {
     return IterableMixinWorkaround.contains(this, element);
   }
 
   void forEach(f(E element)) {
-    IterableMixinWorkaround.forEach(this, f);
+    final length = this.length;
+    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+      f(this[i]);
+    }
   }
 
   String join([String separator = ""]) {
     return IterableMixinWorkaround.joinList(this, separator);
   }
 
   Iterable map(f(E element)) {
     return IterableMixinWorkaround.mapList(this, f);
   }
 
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     return new IterableMixinWorkaround<E>().getRangeList(this, start, end);
   }
 
   // Collection interface.
 
   bool contains(Object element) {
     return IterableMixinWorkaround.contains(this, element);
   }
 
   void forEach(f(E element)) {
-    IterableMixinWorkaround.forEach(this, f);
+    final length = this.length;
+    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+      f(this[i]);
+    }
   }
 
   Iterable map(f(E element)) {
     return IterableMixinWorkaround.mapList(this, f);
   }
 
   String join([String separator = ""]) {
     return IterableMixinWorkaround.joinList(this, separator);
   }
 
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   Map<int, E> asMap() {
     return new IterableMixinWorkaround<E>().asMapList(this);
   }
 }
 
 
 // Iterator for arrays with fixed size.
 class _FixedSizeArrayIterator<E> implements Iterator<E> {
   final List<E> _array;
   final int _length;  // Cache array length for faster access.
-  int _position;
+  int _index;
   E _current;
 
   _FixedSizeArrayIterator(List array)
-      : _array = array, _length = array.length, _position = -1 {
+      : _array = array, _length = array.length, _index = 0 {
     assert(array is _List || array is _ImmutableList);
   }
 
+  E get current => _current;
+
   bool moveNext() {
-    int nextPosition = _position + 1;
-    if (nextPosition < _length) {
-      _current = _array[nextPosition];
-      _position = nextPosition;
-      return true;
+    if (_index >= _length) {
+      _current = null;
+      return false;
     }
-    _position = _length;
-    _current = null;
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  E get current {
-    return _current;
+    _current = _array[_index];
+    _index++;
+    return true;
   }
 }