The document discusses some key differences and improvements in Doctrine 2 compared to Doctrine 1. It notes that Doctrine 2 has a completely rewritten codebase for PHP 5.3 that results in much better performance. It also removes magical aspects that could be difficult to debug. Overall, Doctrine 2 aims to be more explicit and less magical through an object-oriented design.Read less
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