C++ no-op functions can't optimize out the predicate arguments in all cases.
This was causing a problem where zero cost assertions weren't actually zero cost.
The only way to resolve this is to actually use macros sadly enough.
This will give a fairly hefty performance uplift with anything operating on IR.
Instead of having the configuration being loaded and stored in to a
frontend system. First moves the backing store of the configuration in
to FEXCore.
Each layer that is constructed then loads its particular configuration.
After the layers are loaded, then a meta layer is constructed that
merges the layers flat.
This means we will no longer hit the problem where a configuration is
stored in the "main" configuration file, then environment and arguments
passed manage to overwrite it.
The order of the layers going from inner most layer to outer most, with
outermost overwriting previous layer configurations is as follows:
Main < Global application < Local application < Arguments < Environment
One step that needs to be changed in the future is that FEXCore can then
just load its configuration from the layers directly since the data is
in FEXCore now. This will be reserved for a future change so we are less
disruptive.
Ryan Houdek