Optimize link selection metadata #9316

Job	Run time
Typos Check	4s
Lints and doc tests on ubuntu-latest	12m 22s
Unit tests on ubuntu-latest	20m 41s
Lints and doc tests on windows-latest	16m 30s
Unit tests on windows-latest	28m 59s
Lints and doc tests on macos-13	19m 35s
Unit tests on macos-13	14m 18s
Lints and doc tests on macos-14	9m 0s
Unit tests on macos-14	12m 37s
Memory leak checks	2m 9s
CI status checks	1s
	2h 16m 16s

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