Some native mobile features are not yet available in the Cordova Apache libraries, if your project does not make use of any background. Super recommend it!
As for performance, I have nothing to complain about!
There is a crosswalk library that promises to improve perfomance of android phones from 4 to 4.4 I make use of them.
An important information is that some libraries have different implementations for each platform so you should have heard that someone had a problem with this or that Mobile OS, but in the way of rules, consult the documentation that has no error.
Good luck!