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Remove exception throwing from hot path in dispatch

Eliminate fail_cast and stop_iteration exceptions, replacing their use with bool success codes and fold expressions.

This change switches to the non-throwing API of boost::any_cast, and uses return codes to signal the success of a cast attempt or a group of cast attempts. The short-circuiting fold operators && and || are used to terminate type test loops early and avoid extra work.

These changes resulted in a roughly 60% reduction in runtime for my implicit astar_search maze routing benchmark.

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