Improve handling of tags and directives #1166

Job	Run time
samples (Debug, macos-latest)	2m 26s
samples (Release, ubuntu-24.04)	4m 21s
samples (Debug, windows-2022)	3m 12s
samples (Release, macos-latest)	2m 34s
samples (Release, windows-2022)	10m 58s
samples (Debug, ubuntu-24.04)	2m 52s
	26m 23s

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