Improve handling of tags and directives #1168

Job	Run time
samples (Debug, ubuntu-24.04)	3m 24s
samples (Release, macos-latest)	2m 14s
samples (Release, windows-2022)	10m 36s
samples (Debug, windows-2022)	3m 30s
samples (Debug, macos-latest)	1m 42s
samples (Release, ubuntu-24.04)	4m 50s
	26m 16s

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