Saaze has some design criteria, see Saaze Introduction:
- Easy to run
- Easy to host
- Easy to edit
- Easy to theme
- Fast and secure
- Simple to understand
When adding a PHP FFI interfaces, clearly, requirement 1+2 would suffer, but 5 would increase twofold.
I changed the Markdown to HTML conversion from Markdown Extra to MD4 and observed a 50% CPU time reductions overall.
I wrote about this here: Calling MD4C from PHP via FFI.