Thank you. Which devices support active partial configuration? I have not encountered any mention of it, before. The "Three Ages of FPGAs" paper in IEEE has "reconfiguration" in the title of a single reference, and no mention in the text.
The DFX apparatus all looks distressingly proprietary, not to say clumsy. It seems like it will be a long time before this capability leaks out to mainstream use.
After it becomes more accessible, one could hope to compile programmatically generated logic on the fly, and immediately configure some chip area to execute it, perhaps with on-demand / JIT swapping between software and hardware implementation. O Brave New World!