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core: add multiple engine support #332

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The skeleton for this is in place, but it needs to be implemented.

Most of the library has been designed with the assumption that the EnvoyEngine will be instantiated (potentially multiple times) within the process. However, the Engine itself currently is held in a static weak pointer. We have a method to return an engine identifier, that currently is stubbed to simply return 1.

In an earlier change, I made this type pointer width, and my plan for when we fully switch over will be to actually store the memory location of the Engine as the identifier. (This id is opaque and never actually exposed above the bridge layer.)

Because of this, we won't actually need a collection to hold Engine instances. Instead we can create an Engine with new, and store it until the platform engine wrapper is deallocated. At this point, we can drain and then ultimately delete the Engine instance.

With #923 resolving the last major category of shutdown crashes, the door should be open to make this change. There are a handful of locations in code where we intentionally currently leak memory as a shortcut since the Engine itself has been static anyways. These are commented, and I'll subsequently update those comments with a reference to this issue so we can be sure to clean them up.

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