Code Speed Question

[Liquid Fire]

This question is really no t about the speed of code and in seconds but the speed of code as in percent increased.

 

I am building my base model class of my MVC framework and i am testing it with a model that has 2 field(id, and title).  Now i do a loop that create this model 5000 times and what happens is that the constructor set a multi dimension array like this:

$this->fields_structure = array
(
'id' => array
(
	'field' => 'stt.id',
	'field_type' => 'int',
	'key_type' => 'primary',
	'save_type' => 'insert'
),
'title' => array
(
	'field' => 'stt.title',
	'field_type' => 'string',
	'save_type' => 'both'
)
);

and it take from 0.17 -> 0.24 seconds.  Now there is in total 20 options that can be set and when i add the function sets all the default value for these option the run time is from 0.46 -> 0.53.  And what the function that sets the defaults does is loop through the $this->fields_structure and to a array_merge($defaults, $this->fields_structure[$key]) and then does a set of loops for the last 3 three options that are based on previous options.  does that seem like a normal percentage increase in speed.  Is there a better way to store option for model fields besides having an array?

[unkwntech]

There are to many variables involved to give a normal range.

Everything on the 'server' effects the exicution time.