Smaller improvements #537

Job	Run time
macOS-latest (release, none)	4m 57s
windows-latest (devel, none)	4m 39s
ubuntu-22.04 (release, none)	2m 33s
macOS-latest (release, macos-brew)	23m 11s
windows-latest (release, chocolatey)	16m 17s
windows-latest (release, chocolatey-ltr)	17m 41s
windows-latest (devel, chocolatey)	15m 52s
ubuntu-22.04 (release, ubuntu-nightly)	11m 8s
ubuntu-22.04 (devel, ubuntu-nightly)	14m 33s
ubuntu-22.04 (release, ubuntugis)	11m 12s
ubuntu-22.04 (release, ubuntu)	13m 26s
ubuntu-22.04 (release [hard-deps], ubuntu)	7m 16s
ubuntu-22.04 (release, ubuntu-ltr)	11m 54s
	2h 34m 39s

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