Work on api fine tuning #1181

Job	Run time
ci (Release, linux gnu-10)	18m 28s
ci (Release, linux gnu-12)	17m 25s
ci (Release, linux gnu-7)	2m 16s
ci (Release, linux clang-12)	15m 38s
ci (Release, linux intel)	13m 9s
ci (Release, linux intel-classic)	19m 13s
ci (Release, macos)	8m 8s
ci (Debug, linux gnu-10)	20m 40s
ci (Debug, linux gnu-12)	17m 4s
ci (Debug, linux gnu-7)	1m 33s
ci (Debug, linux clang-12)	16m 52s
ci (Debug, linux intel)	12m 12s
ci (Debug, linux intel-classic)	20m 6s
ci (Debug, macos)	9m 7s
	3h 11m 51s

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