fix: address surface generator performance issues #15509

Job	Run time
semantic_pull_request	5s
is_not_draft_pull_request	6s
baseline_log	9s
if_not_unassigned_pull_request	3s
are_submodules_in_sync	14s
code_coverage / build_test_deploy	13s
Check documentation / build_test_deploy	1m 12s
Check code style / build_test_deploy	1m 13s
Ubuntu (20.04, gcc 10.5.0, open-mpi 4.0.3) - github codespaces / build_test_deploy	2h 7m 39s
Ubuntu debug (20.04, gcc 10.5.0, open-mpi 4.0.3) - github codespaces / build_test_deploy	19m 34s
Ubuntu (22.04, gcc 12.3.0, open-mpi 4.1.2) - NO BOUNDS CHECK / build_test_deploy	1h 53m 49s
Ubuntu CUDA debug (20.04, clang 10.0.0 + gcc 9.4.0, open-mpi 4.0.3, cuda-11.8.89) / build_test_deploy	10s
Ubuntu (22.04, gcc 12.3.0, open-mpi 4.1.2) / build_test_deploy	2h 22m 4s
Rockylinux CUDA (8, gcc 13.3, cuda 12.9.1) / build_test_deploy	11s
Rockylinux CUDA (8, clang 17.0.6, cuda 12.9.1) / build_test_deploy	10s
Ubuntu CUDA (20.04, clang 10.0.0 + gcc 9.4.0, open-mpi 4.0.3, cuda-11.8.89) / build_test_deploy	11s
Ubuntu (20.04, gcc 9.4.0, open-mpi 4.0.3) / build_test_deploy	2h 19m 48s
Ubuntu (22.04, gcc 11.4.0, open-mpi 4.1.2) / build_test_deploy	1h 44m 30s
check_that_all_jobs_succeeded	4s
run_integrated_tests	-1s
	10h 51m 24s

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