Implement optional patterns #3293

Job	Run time
Determine compiler version from git tag	1s
Ubuntu dev container/Debug	32m 39s
Native: macos-13/debug/Ninja	40m 0s
Ubuntu dev container/Release	21m 9s
Native: macos-13/debug/Xcode	25m 1s
Native: macos-13/release/Ninja	21m 49s
Native: macos-13/release/Xcode	12m 8s
Native: ubuntu-latest/debug/Ninja	30m 57s
Native: ubuntu-latest/release/Ninja	20m 20s
Native: windows-latest/debug/Ninja	11m 38s
Native: windows-latest/release/Ninja	17m 6s
	3h 52m 48s

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