Hello,

Thanks for the detailed report.

Regarding the hideFlags check, it should not be modified in the source code, since it is required for determining whether a graph is bound or not and thus act accordingly (even though this check has already been changed for the next version).

Deserialization of graphs is obviously having a performance impact due to GC allocation (that can’t be avoided), but there should be no problem if the gameobjects are pre-loaded in load time. Certainly not the same impact as when instantiating and deserializing on-the-fly.
Are you saying that preloading the gameobjects at load time instead of instantiating them on-the-fly, still occur in a performance impact?

Let me know.

(PS: I hope I did not misunderstood your questions)