This is to avoid dynamic memory allocations in the compute() methods of
ComplexEigenSolver, EigenSolver, and SelfAdjointEigenSolver where possible.
As a result, Tridiagonalization::decomposeInPlace() is no longer used.
Biggest remaining issue is the allocation in HouseholderSequence::evalTo().
* get rid of BlockReturnType: it was not needed, and code was not always using it consistently anyway
* add topRows(), leftCols(), bottomRows(), rightCols()
* add corners unit-test covering all of that
* adapt docs, expand "porting from eigen 2 to 3"
* adapt Eigen2Support
- Updated unit tests to check above constructor.
- In the compute() method of decompositions: Made temporary matrices/vectors class members to avoid heap allocations during compute() (when dynamic matrices are used, of course).
These changes can speed up decomposition computation time when a solver instance is used to solve multiple same-sized problems. An added benefit is that the compute() method can now be invoked in contexts were heap allocations are forbidden, such as in real-time control loops.
CAVEAT: Not all of the decompositions in the Eigenvalues module have a heap-allocation-free compute() method. A future patch may address this issue, but some required API changes need to be incorporated first.
of ei_matrix_array for size 0
* adapt many xprs to have the right storage order, now that it matters
* add static assert on expressions to check that vector xprs
have the righ storage order
* adapt ei_plain_matrix_type_(column|row)_major
* implement assignment of selfadjointview to matrix
(was before failing to compile) and add nestedExpression() methods
* expand product_symm test
* in ei_gemv_selector, use the PlainObject type instead of a custom Matrix<...> type
* fix VectorBlock and Block mistakes
NOTE: The ComplexEigenSolver class currently _does_ allocate (line 135 of Eigenvalues/ComplexEigenSolver.h), but the reason appears to be in the implementation of matrix-matrix products, and not in the decomposition itself.
The nomalloc unit test has been extended to verify that decompositions do not allocate when max sizes are specified. There are currently two workarounds to prevent the test from failing (see comments in test/nomalloc.cpp), both of which are related to matrix products that allocate on the stack.
