WIP no submodules #1115

Job	Run time
samples (Release, windows-2022)	10m 41s
samples (Release, ubuntu-24.04)	4m 9s
samples (Debug, ubuntu-24.04)	2m 46s
samples (Debug, macos-latest)	2m 10s
samples (Debug, windows-2022)	3m 0s
samples (Release, macos-latest)	2m 3s
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