diff --git a/Eigen/SparseCore b/Eigen/SparseCore
index 0c91c3b59..f74df3038 100644
--- a/Eigen/SparseCore
+++ b/Eigen/SparseCore
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ struct Sparse {};
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseView.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseDiagonalProduct.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/ConservativeSparseSparseProduct.h"
+#include "src/SparseCore/SparseSparseProductWithPruning.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseProduct.h"
 #ifndef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparsePermutation.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseFuzzy.h"
-#include "src/SparseCore/SparseSparseProductWithPruning.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseDenseProduct.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseTriangularView.h"
 #include "src/SparseCore/SparseSelfAdjointView.h"
diff --git a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseMatrixBase.h b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseMatrixBase.h
index cebf3990d..3a81916fb 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseMatrixBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseMatrixBase.h
@@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ template<typename Derived> class SparseMatrixBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
     { return typename internal::eval<Derived>::type(derived()); }
 
     Scalar sum() const;
+    
+    inline const SparseView<Derived>
+    pruned(const Scalar& reference = Scalar(0), const RealScalar& epsilon = NumTraits<Scalar>::dummy_precision()) const;
 
   protected:
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseProduct.h b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseProduct.h
index 52c452f92..8b9578836 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseProduct.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseProduct.h
@@ -242,7 +242,37 @@ struct product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>, ProductTag, SparseSh
 protected:  
   PlainObject m_result;
 };
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Options>
+struct evaluator<SparseView<Product<Lhs, Rhs, Options> > > 
+ : public evaluator<typename Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>::PlainObject>::type
+{
+  typedef SparseView<Product<Lhs, Rhs, Options> > XprType;
+  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type Base;
   
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
+  
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr)
+    : m_result(xpr.rows(), xpr.cols())
+  {
+    using std::abs;
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    typedef typename nested_eval<Lhs,Dynamic>::type LhsNested;
+    typedef typename nested_eval<Rhs,Dynamic>::type RhsNested;
+    LhsNested lhsNested(xpr.nestedExpression().lhs());
+    RhsNested rhsNested(xpr.nestedExpression().rhs());
+    
+    internal::sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<typename remove_all<LhsNested>::type,
+                                                          typename remove_all<RhsNested>::type, PlainObject>::run(lhsNested,rhsNested,m_result,
+                                                                                                                  abs(xpr.reference())*xpr.epsilon());
+  }
+  
+protected:  
+  PlainObject m_result;
+};
+
 } // end namespace internal
 
 #endif // EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
diff --git a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseSparseProductWithPruning.h b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseSparseProductWithPruning.h
index fcc18f5c9..c33ec6bfd 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseSparseProductWithPruning.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseSparseProductWithPruning.h
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ static void sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_impl(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& r
     res.resize(cols, rows);
   else
     res.resize(rows, cols);
+  
+  #ifdef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
+  typename evaluator<Lhs>::type lhsEval(lhs);
+  typename evaluator<Rhs>::type rhsEval(rhs);
+  #endif
 
   res.reserve(estimated_nnz_prod);
   double ratioColRes = double(estimated_nnz_prod)/double(lhs.rows()*rhs.cols());
@@ -56,12 +61,20 @@ static void sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_impl(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& r
     // let's do a more accurate determination of the nnz ratio for the current column j of res
     tempVector.init(ratioColRes);
     tempVector.setZero();
+#ifndef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
     for (typename Rhs::InnerIterator rhsIt(rhs, j); rhsIt; ++rhsIt)
+#else
+    for (typename evaluator<Rhs>::InnerIterator rhsIt(rhsEval, j); rhsIt; ++rhsIt)
+#endif
     {
       // FIXME should be written like this: tmp += rhsIt.value() * lhs.col(rhsIt.index())
       tempVector.restart();
       Scalar x = rhsIt.value();
+#ifndef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
       for (typename Lhs::InnerIterator lhsIt(lhs, rhsIt.index()); lhsIt; ++lhsIt)
+#else
+      for (typename evaluator<Lhs>::InnerIterator lhsIt(lhsEval, rhsIt.index()); lhsIt; ++lhsIt)
+#endif
       {
         tempVector.coeffRef(lhsIt.index()) += lhsIt.value() * x;
       }
@@ -140,8 +153,58 @@ struct sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<Lhs,Rhs,ResultType,RowMajor,R
   }
 };
 
+#ifndef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
 // NOTE the 2 others cases (col row *) must never occur since they are caught
 // by ProductReturnType which transforms it to (col col *) by evaluating rhs.
+#else
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename ResultType>
+struct sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<Lhs,Rhs,ResultType,ColMajor,RowMajor,RowMajor>
+{
+  typedef typename ResultType::RealScalar RealScalar;
+  static void run(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, ResultType& res, const RealScalar& tolerance)
+  {
+    typedef SparseMatrix<typename ResultType::Scalar,RowMajor,typename Lhs::Index> RowMajorMatrixLhs;
+    RowMajorMatrixLhs rowLhs(lhs);
+    sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<RowMajorMatrixLhs,Rhs,ResultType,RowMajor,RowMajor>(rowLhs,rhs,res,tolerance);
+  }
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename ResultType>
+struct sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<Lhs,Rhs,ResultType,RowMajor,ColMajor,RowMajor>
+{
+  typedef typename ResultType::RealScalar RealScalar;
+  static void run(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, ResultType& res, const RealScalar& tolerance)
+  {
+    typedef SparseMatrix<typename ResultType::Scalar,RowMajor,typename Lhs::Index> RowMajorMatrixRhs;
+    RowMajorMatrixRhs rowRhs(rhs);
+    sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<Lhs,RowMajorMatrixRhs,ResultType,RowMajor,RowMajor,RowMajor>(lhs,rowRhs,res,tolerance);
+  }
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename ResultType>
+struct sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<Lhs,Rhs,ResultType,ColMajor,RowMajor,ColMajor>
+{
+  typedef typename ResultType::RealScalar RealScalar;
+  static void run(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, ResultType& res, const RealScalar& tolerance)
+  {
+    typedef SparseMatrix<typename ResultType::Scalar,ColMajor,typename Lhs::Index> ColMajorMatrixRhs;
+    ColMajorMatrixRhs colRhs(rhs);
+    internal::sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_impl<Lhs,ColMajorMatrixRhs,ResultType>(lhs, colRhs, res, tolerance);
+  }
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename ResultType>
+struct sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_selector<Lhs,Rhs,ResultType,RowMajor,ColMajor,ColMajor>
+{
+  typedef typename ResultType::RealScalar RealScalar;
+  static void run(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, ResultType& res, const RealScalar& tolerance)
+  {
+    typedef SparseMatrix<typename ResultType::Scalar,ColMajor,typename Lhs::Index> ColMajorMatrixLhs;
+    ColMajorMatrixLhs colLhs(lhs);
+    internal::sparse_sparse_product_with_pruning_impl<ColMajorMatrixLhs,Rhs,ResultType>(colLhs, rhs, res, tolerance);
+  }
+};
+#endif
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseView.h b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseView.h
index 96d0a849c..7bffbb9cd 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseView.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/SparseCore/SparseView.h
@@ -233,10 +233,30 @@ struct unary_evaluator<SparseView<ArgType>, IndexBased>
 #endif // EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
 
 template<typename Derived>
-const SparseView<Derived> MatrixBase<Derived>::sparseView(const Scalar& m_reference,
-                                                          const typename NumTraits<Scalar>::Real& m_epsilon) const
+const SparseView<Derived> MatrixBase<Derived>::sparseView(const Scalar& reference,
+                                                          const typename NumTraits<Scalar>::Real& epsilon) const
 {
-  return SparseView<Derived>(derived(), m_reference, m_epsilon);
+  return SparseView<Derived>(derived(), reference, epsilon);
+}
+
+/** \returns an expression of \c *this with values smaller than
+  * \a reference * \a epsilon are removed.
+  *
+  * This method is typically used in conjunction with the product of two sparse matrices
+  * to automatically prune the smallest values as follows:
+  * \code
+  * C = (A*B).pruned();             // suppress numerical zeros (exact)
+  * C = (A*B).pruned(ref);
+  * C = (A*B).pruned(ref,epsilon);
+  * \endcode
+  * where \c ref is a meaningful non zero reference value.
+  * */
+template<typename Derived>
+const SparseView<Derived>
+SparseMatrixBase<Derived>::pruned(const Scalar& reference,
+                                  const RealScalar& epsilon) const
+{
+  return SparseView<Derived>(derived(), reference, epsilon);
 }
 
 } // end namespace Eigen