Commercial use of run-time code generation?

I've recently read a bit about partial evaluation and run-time code
generation (Massalin's thesis; MIT exokernel, with the more portable
VCODE and `C; DCG).


Is RTCG used in many commercial products? What range of products use
it? JIT compilers and emulators, for example? I don't mean just
compilers that can compile your program into core rather than to disk,
but very lightweight code generators (repeatedly) invoked during the
running of some application program. I am curious how well RTCG works
with current architectures; Massalin's work was on earlier generations
680x0 machines, where cache consistency and pollution were not big
concerns (the MIT work is more current.)


Paul
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