Improve handling of tags and directives #1169

Job	Run time
samples (Debug, macos-latest)	1m 47s
samples (Debug, ubuntu-24.04)	3m 1s
samples (Debug, windows-2022)	3m 6s
samples (Release, windows-2022)	10m 50s
samples (Release, ubuntu-24.04)	4m 9s
samples (Release, macos-latest)	3m 4s
	25m 57s

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