WIP no submodules #1113

Job	Run time
samples (Release, macos-latest)	9s
samples (Release, windows-2022)	10s
samples (Release, ubuntu-24.04)	5s
samples (Debug, ubuntu-24.04)	4s
samples (Debug, windows-2022)	12s
samples (Debug, macos-latest)	5s
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