Functions without parameters cost nearly nothing. Else it has to declare the locals and assign them the incoming values. But it's nuts to make this priority. There are other interests mapmakers strive for like progress, modularity, not write the same things twice, build greater structures. Would only do this if it was really necessary in the standalone low-level.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.