Stricter checks on network construction / simulation parameters. #668

Job	Run time
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Min GCC, ubuntu-22.04, gcc-12, g++-12, 3.9, 3.19.x, ON, OFF, static)	16m 20s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Min GCC, ubuntu-22.04, gcc-12, g++-12, 3.9, 3.19.x, ON, OFF, shared)	11m 19s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Min Clang, ubuntu-22.04, clang-12, clang++-12, 3.9, 3.19.x, ON, OFF, st...	10m 5s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Min Clang, ubuntu-22.04, clang-12, clang++-12, 3.9, 3.19.x, ON, OFF, sh...	9m 54s
CMake Matrix Test. (MacOS Min, macos-13, clang, clang++, 3.9, 3.19.x, ON, OFF, static)	12m 17s
CMake Matrix Test. (MacOS Min, macos-13, clang, clang++, 3.9, 3.19.x, ON, OFF, shared)	12m 20s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Max GCC, ubuntu-24.04, gcc-14, g++-14, 3.12, 3.22.x, ON, OFF, static)	27m 27s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Max GCC, ubuntu-24.04, gcc-14, g++-14, 3.12, 3.22.x, ON, OFF, shared)	19m 0s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux SIMD, ubuntu-24.04, gcc-14, g++-14, 3.12, 3.22.x, OFF, ON, static)	25m 40s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux SIMD, ubuntu-24.04, gcc-14, g++-14, 3.12, 3.22.x, OFF, ON, shared)	17m 29s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Max Clang, ubuntu-24.04, clang-18, clang++-18, 3.12, 3.22.x, ON, OFF, s...	14m 48s
CMake Matrix Test. (Linux Max Clang, ubuntu-24.04, clang-18, clang++-18, 3.12, 3.22.x, ON, OFF, s...	11m 1s
CMake Matrix Test. (MacOS Max, macos-14, clang, clang++, 3.12, 3.22.x, ON, OFF, static)	9m 30s
CMake Matrix Test. (MacOS Max, macos-14, clang, clang++, 3.12, 3.22.x, ON, OFF, shared)	8m 2s
	3h 25m 12s

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