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-This repository contains additions, enhancements, and bug fixes for the Eigen C++ template library. These changes are regularly merged into the Eigen trunk.
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+This repository contains additions, enhancements, and bug fixes for the Eigen C++ template library.
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+Among other things, this branch introduced support for AVX and FMA instructions, performance improvements for the matrix multiplication kernels, as well as the Tensor library.
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+These changes are regularly merged into the Eigen trunk.
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