485 fix filter reads and remove low complexity memory inefficiency #123

Job	Run time
run-tests / Unit Tests	12s
run-integration-tests / Slurm Test	3m 48s
run-integration-tests / Apptainer Test	4m 23s
run-tests / Lint Codebase	8s
run-tests / E2E Tests	2m 51s
	11m 22s

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