Better way to do this? (Pathfinding related)

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I have coded up an A* algorithm that uses placed nodes in my scenes to create a path. The problem is that there are around 12,000 nodes that need to be placed and when I place that many it makes Unity run incredibly slow. The node objects only have 2 components (transform and Node.cs) attached to them. Is there a way to have these objects in my scene without having Unity run so slow?

Note: I know someone is just going to say use Angry Ant or another pathfinding system. But for this particular game those methods will not work.

Thank you.

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Do you really need each node to be a game object? Maybe you could batch a bunch of simple classes in one master game object, that manage your node information? You could just do with a struct or a class for each node probably, which are kept in a collection for your manager.