I want to let LAVA know about a feature of LV 2016 that may not get much press. The In-Place Element structure has a new pair of border nodes to let you access the attributes of a variant without copying them out of the variant. This will VASTLY improve the performance of tools that use variant attributes as lookup tables.
I strongly encourage everyone who works on this to look at the shipping example:
labview\examples\Performance\Variant Attribute Lookup Table\