Interesting re: doing everything as a Node. Is that the recommended approach? Is anyone aware of the performance overhead from using Nodes vs plain objects (I assume there is some)?
Kind of... The docs mention AA vs Nodes here:
In reality creating a node takes an order of magnitude or two longer than creating an AA so depending on how much you're passing them around the overall perf hit might or might not balance out.
My thinking, though, is that most (all?) of the big objects we're passing around are destined for RowLists etc anyway, in which case they need to be turned into ContentNode trees eventually - so I just do it early. For smaller bits of data it doesn't matter if it takes 8ms to create a single AA or 80ms to create a single Node, if it's happening once every few minutes rather than 200 times in a loop.
