Merged eigen/eigen into default

71 files changed, 3579 insertions, 4175 deletions

diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Array.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Array.h
index 28d6f1443..eaee8847b 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Array.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Array.h
@@ -74,6 +74,21 @@ class Array
     {
       return Base::operator=(other);
     }
+    
+    /** Set all the entries to \a value.
+      * \sa DenseBase::setConstant(), DenseBase::fill()
+      */
+    /* This overload is needed because the usage of
+      *   using Base::operator=;
+      * fails on MSVC. Since the code below is working with GCC and MSVC, we skipped
+      * the usage of 'using'. This should be done only for operator=.
+      */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Array& operator=(const Scalar &value)
+    {
+      Base::setConstant(value);
+      return *this;
+    }
 
     /** Copies the value of the expression \a other into \c *this with automatic resizing.
       *
@@ -99,7 +114,7 @@ class Array
     {
       return Base::_set(other);
     }
-
+    
     /** Default constructor.
       *
       * For fixed-size matrices, does nothing.
@@ -144,7 +159,6 @@ class Array
     }
 #endif
 
-
     #ifndef EIGEN_PARSED_BY_DOXYGEN
     template<typename T>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayBase.h
index 2c9ace4a7..48a0006d5 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayBase.h
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class ArrayBase
     using Base::MaxSizeAtCompileTime;
     using Base::IsVectorAtCompileTime;
     using Base::Flags;
-    using Base::CoeffReadCost;
-
+    
     using Base::derived;
     using Base::const_cast_derived;
     using Base::rows;
@@ -121,8 +120,14 @@ template<typename Derived> class ArrayBase
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     Derived& operator=(const ArrayBase& other)
     {
-      return internal::assign_selector<Derived,Derived>::run(derived(), other.derived());
+      internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
     }
+    
+    /** Set all the entries to \a value.
+      * \sa DenseBase::setConstant(), DenseBase::fill() */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    Derived& operator=(const Scalar &value)
+    { Base::setConstant(value); return derived(); }
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     Derived& operator+=(const Scalar& scalar);
@@ -186,8 +191,7 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived &
 ArrayBase<Derived>::operator-=(const ArrayBase<OtherDerived> &other)
 {
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_difference_op<Scalar>, Derived, OtherDerived> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = other.derived();
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -200,8 +204,7 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived &
 ArrayBase<Derived>::operator+=(const ArrayBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>, Derived, OtherDerived> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = other.derived();
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -214,8 +217,7 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived &
 ArrayBase<Derived>::operator*=(const ArrayBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_product_op<Scalar>, Derived, OtherDerived> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = other.derived();
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::mul_assign_op<Scalar,typename OtherDerived::Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -228,8 +230,7 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived &
 ArrayBase<Derived>::operator/=(const ArrayBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_quotient_op<Scalar>, Derived, OtherDerived> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = other.derived();
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::div_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayWrapper.h b/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayWrapper.h
index 4bb648024..ed5210272 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayWrapper.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/ArrayWrapper.h
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ struct traits<ArrayWrapper<ExpressionType> >
   : public traits<typename remove_all<typename ExpressionType::Nested>::type >
 {
   typedef ArrayXpr XprKind;
+  // Let's remove NestByRefBit
+  enum {
+    Flags0 = traits<typename remove_all<typename ExpressionType::Nested>::type >::Flags,
+    Flags = Flags0 & ~NestByRefBit
+  };
 };
 }
 
@@ -39,6 +44,7 @@ class ArrayWrapper : public ArrayBase<ArrayWrapper<ExpressionType> >
     typedef ArrayBase<ArrayWrapper> Base;
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(ArrayWrapper)
     EIGEN_INHERIT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATORS(ArrayWrapper)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ExpressionType>::type NestedExpression;
 
     typedef typename internal::conditional<
                        internal::is_lvalue<ExpressionType>::value,
@@ -166,6 +172,11 @@ struct traits<MatrixWrapper<ExpressionType> >
  : public traits<typename remove_all<typename ExpressionType::Nested>::type >
 {
   typedef MatrixXpr XprKind;
+  // Let's remove NestByRefBit
+  enum {
+    Flags0 = traits<typename remove_all<typename ExpressionType::Nested>::type >::Flags,
+    Flags = Flags0 & ~NestByRefBit
+  };
 };
 }
 
@@ -176,6 +187,7 @@ class MatrixWrapper : public MatrixBase<MatrixWrapper<ExpressionType> >
     typedef MatrixBase<MatrixWrapper<ExpressionType> > Base;
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(MatrixWrapper)
     EIGEN_INHERIT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATORS(MatrixWrapper)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ExpressionType>::type NestedExpression;
 
     typedef typename internal::conditional<
                        internal::is_lvalue<ExpressionType>::value,
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Assign.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Assign.h
index 07da2fe31..53806ba33 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Assign.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Assign.h
@@ -14,485 +14,6 @@
 
 namespace Eigen {
 
-namespace internal {
-
-/***************************************************************************
-* Part 1 : the logic deciding a strategy for traversal and unrolling       *
-***************************************************************************/
-
-template <typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-struct assign_traits
-{
-public:
-  enum {
-    DstIsAligned = Derived::Flags & AlignedBit,
-    DstHasDirectAccess = Derived::Flags & DirectAccessBit,
-    SrcIsAligned = OtherDerived::Flags & AlignedBit,
-    JointAlignment = bool(DstIsAligned) && bool(SrcIsAligned) ? Aligned : Unaligned
-  };
-
-private:
-  enum {
-    InnerSize = int(Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? int(Derived::ColsAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::RowsAtCompileTime),
-    InnerMaxSize = int(Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(Derived::MaxSizeAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? int(Derived::MaxColsAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::MaxRowsAtCompileTime),
-    MaxSizeAtCompileTime = Derived::SizeAtCompileTime,
-    PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Derived::Scalar>::size
-  };
-
-  enum {
-    StorageOrdersAgree = (int(Derived::IsRowMajor) == int(OtherDerived::IsRowMajor)),
-    MightVectorize = StorageOrdersAgree
-                  && (int(Derived::Flags) & int(OtherDerived::Flags) & ActualPacketAccessBit),
-    MayInnerVectorize  = MightVectorize && int(InnerSize)!=Dynamic && int(InnerSize)%int(PacketSize)==0
-                       && int(DstIsAligned) && int(SrcIsAligned),
-    MayLinearize = StorageOrdersAgree && (int(Derived::Flags) & int(OtherDerived::Flags) & LinearAccessBit),
-    MayLinearVectorize = MightVectorize && MayLinearize && DstHasDirectAccess
-                       && (DstIsAligned || MaxSizeAtCompileTime == Dynamic),
-      /* If the destination isn't aligned, we have to do runtime checks and we don't unroll,
-         so it's only good for large enough sizes. */
-    MaySliceVectorize  = MightVectorize && DstHasDirectAccess
-                       && (int(InnerMaxSize)==Dynamic || int(InnerMaxSize)>=3*PacketSize)
-      /* slice vectorization can be slow, so we only want it if the slices are big, which is
-         indicated by InnerMaxSize rather than InnerSize, think of the case of a dynamic block
-         in a fixed-size matrix */
-  };
-
-public:
-  enum {
-    Traversal = int(MayInnerVectorize)  ? int(InnerVectorizedTraversal)
-              : int(MayLinearVectorize) ? int(LinearVectorizedTraversal)
-              : int(MaySliceVectorize)  ? int(SliceVectorizedTraversal)
-              : int(MayLinearize)       ? int(LinearTraversal)
-                                        : int(DefaultTraversal),
-    Vectorized = int(Traversal) == InnerVectorizedTraversal
-              || int(Traversal) == LinearVectorizedTraversal
-              || int(Traversal) == SliceVectorizedTraversal
-  };
-
-private:
-  enum {
-    UnrollingLimit      = EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT * (Vectorized ? int(PacketSize) : 1),
-    MayUnrollCompletely = int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime) != Dynamic
-                       && int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) != Dynamic
-                       && int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime) * int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) <= int(UnrollingLimit),
-    MayUnrollInner      = int(InnerSize) != Dynamic
-                       && int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) != Dynamic
-                       && int(InnerSize) * int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) <= int(UnrollingLimit)
-  };
-
-public:
-  enum {
-    Unrolling = (int(Traversal) == int(InnerVectorizedTraversal) || int(Traversal) == int(DefaultTraversal))
-                ? (
-                    int(MayUnrollCompletely) ? int(CompleteUnrolling)
-                  : int(MayUnrollInner)      ? int(InnerUnrolling)
-                                             : int(NoUnrolling)
-                  )
-              : int(Traversal) == int(LinearVectorizedTraversal)
-                ? ( bool(MayUnrollCompletely) && bool(DstIsAligned) ? int(CompleteUnrolling) : int(NoUnrolling) )
-              : int(Traversal) == int(LinearTraversal)
-                ? ( bool(MayUnrollCompletely) ? int(CompleteUnrolling) : int(NoUnrolling) )
-              : int(NoUnrolling)
-  };
-
-#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
-  static void debug()
-  {
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(DstIsAligned)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(SrcIsAligned)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(JointAlignment)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(InnerSize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(InnerMaxSize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(PacketSize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(StorageOrdersAgree)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MightVectorize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayLinearize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayInnerVectorize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayLinearVectorize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MaySliceVectorize)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Traversal)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(UnrollingLimit)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayUnrollCompletely)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayUnrollInner)
-    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Unrolling)
-  }
-#endif
-};
-
-/***************************************************************************
-* Part 2 : meta-unrollers
-***************************************************************************/
-
-/************************
-*** Default traversal ***
-************************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Index, int Stop>
-struct assign_DefaultTraversal_CompleteUnrolling
-{
-  enum {
-    outer = Index / Derived1::InnerSizeAtCompileTime,
-    inner = Index % Derived1::InnerSizeAtCompileTime
-  };
-
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    dst.copyCoeffByOuterInner(outer, inner, src);
-    assign_DefaultTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Index+1, Stop>::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Stop>
-struct assign_DefaultTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Stop, Stop>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) {}
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Index, int Stop>
-struct assign_DefaultTraversal_InnerUnrolling
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src, typename Derived1::Index outer)
-  {
-    dst.copyCoeffByOuterInner(outer, Index, src);
-    assign_DefaultTraversal_InnerUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Index+1, Stop>::run(dst, src, outer);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Stop>
-struct assign_DefaultTraversal_InnerUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Stop, Stop>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &, typename Derived1::Index) {}
-};
-
-/***********************
-*** Linear traversal ***
-***********************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Index, int Stop>
-struct assign_LinearTraversal_CompleteUnrolling
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    dst.copyCoeff(Index, src);
-    assign_LinearTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Index+1, Stop>::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Stop>
-struct assign_LinearTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Stop, Stop>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) {}
-};
-
-/**************************
-*** Inner vectorization ***
-**************************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Index, int Stop>
-struct assign_innervec_CompleteUnrolling
-{
-  enum {
-    outer = Index / Derived1::InnerSizeAtCompileTime,
-    inner = Index % Derived1::InnerSizeAtCompileTime,
-    JointAlignment = assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::JointAlignment
-  };
-
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    dst.template copyPacketByOuterInner<Derived2, Aligned, JointAlignment>(outer, inner, src);
-    assign_innervec_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2,
-      Index+packet_traits<typename Derived1::Scalar>::size, Stop>::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Stop>
-struct assign_innervec_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Stop, Stop>
-{
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) {}
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Index, int Stop>
-struct assign_innervec_InnerUnrolling
-{
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src, typename Derived1::Index outer)
-  {
-    dst.template copyPacketByOuterInner<Derived2, Aligned, Aligned>(outer, Index, src);
-    assign_innervec_InnerUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2,
-      Index+packet_traits<typename Derived1::Scalar>::size, Stop>::run(dst, src, outer);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Stop>
-struct assign_innervec_InnerUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, Stop, Stop>
-{
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &, typename Derived1::Index) {}
-};
-
-/***************************************************************************
-* Part 3 : implementation of all cases
-***************************************************************************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2,
-         int Traversal = assign_traits<Derived1, Derived2>::Traversal,
-         int Unrolling = assign_traits<Derived1, Derived2>::Unrolling,
-         int Version = Specialized>
-struct assign_impl;
-
-/************************
-*** Default traversal ***
-************************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Unrolling, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, InvalidTraversal, Unrolling, Version>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) { }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, DefaultTraversal, NoUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    const Index innerSize = dst.innerSize();
-    const Index outerSize = dst.outerSize();
-    for(Index outer = 0; outer < outerSize; ++outer)
-      for(Index inner = 0; inner < innerSize; ++inner)
-        dst.copyCoeffByOuterInner(outer, inner, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, DefaultTraversal, CompleteUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    assign_DefaultTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, 0, Derived1::SizeAtCompileTime>
-      ::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, DefaultTraversal, InnerUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    const Index outerSize = dst.outerSize();
-    for(Index outer = 0; outer < outerSize; ++outer)
-      assign_DefaultTraversal_InnerUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, 0, Derived1::InnerSizeAtCompileTime>
-        ::run(dst, src, outer);
-  }
-};
-
-/***********************
-*** Linear traversal ***
-***********************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, LinearTraversal, NoUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    const Index size = dst.size();
-    for(Index i = 0; i < size; ++i)
-      dst.copyCoeff(i, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, LinearTraversal, CompleteUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    assign_LinearTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, 0, Derived1::SizeAtCompileTime>
-      ::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-/**************************
-*** Inner vectorization ***
-**************************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, InnerVectorizedTraversal, NoUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    const Index innerSize = dst.innerSize();
-    const Index outerSize = dst.outerSize();
-    const Index packetSize = packet_traits<typename Derived1::Scalar>::size;
-    for(Index outer = 0; outer < outerSize; ++outer)
-      for(Index inner = 0; inner < innerSize; inner+=packetSize)
-        dst.template copyPacketByOuterInner<Derived2, Aligned, Aligned>(outer, inner, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, InnerVectorizedTraversal, CompleteUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    assign_innervec_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, 0, Derived1::SizeAtCompileTime>
-      ::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, InnerVectorizedTraversal, InnerUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    const Index outerSize = dst.outerSize();
-    for(Index outer = 0; outer < outerSize; ++outer)
-      assign_innervec_InnerUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, 0, Derived1::InnerSizeAtCompileTime>
-        ::run(dst, src, outer);
-  }
-};
-
-/***************************
-*** Linear vectorization ***
-***************************/
-
-template <bool IsAligned = false>
-struct unaligned_assign_impl
-{
-  template <typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(const Derived&, OtherDerived&, typename Derived::Index, typename Derived::Index) {}
-};
-
-template <>
-struct unaligned_assign_impl<false>
-{
-  // MSVC must not inline this functions. If it does, it fails to optimize the
-  // packet access path.
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
-  template <typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-  static EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void run(const Derived& src, OtherDerived& dst, typename Derived::Index start, typename Derived::Index end)
-#else
-  template <typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(const Derived& src, OtherDerived& dst, typename Derived::Index start, typename Derived::Index end)
-#endif
-  {
-    for (typename Derived::Index index = start; index < end; ++index)
-      dst.copyCoeff(index, src);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, LinearVectorizedTraversal, NoUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    const Index size = dst.size();
-    typedef packet_traits<typename Derived1::Scalar> PacketTraits;
-    enum {
-      packetSize = PacketTraits::size,
-      dstAlignment = PacketTraits::AlignedOnScalar ? Aligned : int(assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::DstIsAligned) ,
-      srcAlignment = assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::JointAlignment
-    };
-    const Index alignedStart = assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::DstIsAligned ? 0
-                             : internal::first_aligned(&dst.coeffRef(0), size);
-    const Index alignedEnd = alignedStart + ((size-alignedStart)/packetSize)*packetSize;
-
-    unaligned_assign_impl<assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::DstIsAligned!=0>::run(src,dst,0,alignedStart);
-
-    for(Index index = alignedStart; index < alignedEnd; index += packetSize)
-    {
-      dst.template copyPacket<Derived2, dstAlignment, srcAlignment>(index, src);
-    }
-
-    unaligned_assign_impl<>::run(src,dst,alignedEnd,size);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, LinearVectorizedTraversal, CompleteUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    enum { size = Derived1::SizeAtCompileTime,
-           packetSize = packet_traits<typename Derived1::Scalar>::size,
-           alignedSize = (size/packetSize)*packetSize };
-
-    assign_innervec_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, 0, alignedSize>::run(dst, src);
-    assign_DefaultTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Derived1, Derived2, alignedSize, size>::run(dst, src);
-  }
-};
-
-/**************************
-*** Slice vectorization ***
-***************************/
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int Version>
-struct assign_impl<Derived1, Derived2, SliceVectorizedTraversal, NoUnrolling, Version>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    typedef packet_traits<typename Derived1::Scalar> PacketTraits;
-    enum {
-      packetSize = PacketTraits::size,
-      alignable = PacketTraits::AlignedOnScalar,
-      dstAlignment = alignable ? Aligned : int(assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::DstIsAligned) ,
-      srcAlignment = assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::JointAlignment
-    };
-    const Index packetAlignedMask = packetSize - 1;
-    const Index innerSize = dst.innerSize();
-    const Index outerSize = dst.outerSize();
-    const Index alignedStep = alignable ? (packetSize - dst.outerStride() % packetSize) & packetAlignedMask : 0;
-    Index alignedStart = ((!alignable) || assign_traits<Derived1,Derived2>::DstIsAligned) ? 0
-                       : internal::first_aligned(&dst.coeffRef(0,0), innerSize);
-
-    for(Index outer = 0; outer < outerSize; ++outer)
-    {
-      const Index alignedEnd = alignedStart + ((innerSize-alignedStart) & ~packetAlignedMask);
-      // do the non-vectorizable part of the assignment
-      for(Index inner = 0; inner<alignedStart ; ++inner)
-        dst.copyCoeffByOuterInner(outer, inner, src);
-
-      // do the vectorizable part of the assignment
-      for(Index inner = alignedStart; inner<alignedEnd; inner+=packetSize)
-        dst.template copyPacketByOuterInner<Derived2, dstAlignment, Unaligned>(outer, inner, src);
-
-      // do the non-vectorizable part of the assignment
-      for(Index inner = alignedEnd; inner<innerSize ; ++inner)
-        dst.copyCoeffByOuterInner(outer, inner, src);
-
-      alignedStart = std::min<Index>((alignedStart+alignedStep)%packetSize, innerSize);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-} // end namespace internal
-
-/***************************************************************************
-* Part 4 : implementation of DenseBase methods
-***************************************************************************/
-
 template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& DenseBase<Derived>
@@ -506,91 +27,35 @@ EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& DenseBase<Derived>
   EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SAME_MATRIX_SIZE(Derived,OtherDerived)
   EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(SameType,YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
 
-#ifdef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
-  
-#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
-  internal::copy_using_evaluator_traits<Derived, OtherDerived>::debug();
-#endif
-  eigen_assert(rows() == other.rows() && cols() == other.cols());
-  internal::call_dense_assignment_loop(derived(),other.derived());
-  
-#else // EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
-
-#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
-  internal::assign_traits<Derived, OtherDerived>::debug();
-#endif
   eigen_assert(rows() == other.rows() && cols() == other.cols());
-  internal::assign_impl<Derived, OtherDerived, int(SameType) ? int(internal::assign_traits<Derived, OtherDerived>::Traversal)
-                                                             : int(InvalidTraversal)>::run(derived(),other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment_no_alias(derived(),other.derived());
   
-#endif // EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
-  
-#ifndef EIGEN_NO_DEBUG
-  checkTransposeAliasing(other.derived());
-#endif
   return derived();
 }
 
-namespace internal {
-
-template<typename Derived, typename OtherDerived,
-         bool EvalBeforeAssigning = (int(internal::traits<OtherDerived>::Flags) & EvalBeforeAssigningBit) != 0,
-         bool NeedToTranspose = ((int(Derived::RowsAtCompileTime) == 1 && int(OtherDerived::ColsAtCompileTime) == 1)
-                              |   // FIXME | instead of || to please GCC 4.4.0 stupid warning "suggest parentheses around &&".
-                                  // revert to || as soon as not needed anymore.
-                                  (int(Derived::ColsAtCompileTime) == 1 && int(OtherDerived::RowsAtCompileTime) == 1))
-                              && int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime) != 1>
-struct assign_selector;
-
-template<typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-struct assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,false,false> {
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& run(Derived& dst, const OtherDerived& other) { return dst.lazyAssign(other.derived()); }
-  template<typename ActualDerived, typename ActualOtherDerived>
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& evalTo(ActualDerived& dst, const ActualOtherDerived& other) { other.evalTo(dst); return dst; }
-};
-template<typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-struct assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,true,false> {
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& run(Derived& dst, const OtherDerived& other) { return dst.lazyAssign(other.eval()); }
-};
-template<typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-struct assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,false,true> {
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& run(Derived& dst, const OtherDerived& other) { return dst.lazyAssign(other.transpose()); }
-  template<typename ActualDerived, typename ActualOtherDerived>
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& evalTo(ActualDerived& dst, const ActualOtherDerived& other) { Transpose<ActualDerived> dstTrans(dst); other.evalTo(dstTrans); return dst; }
-};
-template<typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
-struct assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,true,true> {
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& run(Derived& dst, const OtherDerived& other) { return dst.lazyAssign(other.transpose().eval()); }
-};
-
-} // end namespace internal
-
 template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator=(const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  return internal::assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived>::run(derived(), other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename Derived>
 EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator=(const DenseBase& other)
 {
-  return internal::assign_selector<Derived,Derived>::run(derived(), other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename Derived>
 EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& MatrixBase<Derived>::operator=(const MatrixBase& other)
 {
-  return internal::assign_selector<Derived,Derived>::run(derived(), other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename Derived>
@@ -598,7 +63,8 @@ template <typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& MatrixBase<Derived>::operator=(const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  return internal::assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived>::run(derived(), other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename Derived>
@@ -606,7 +72,8 @@ template <typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& MatrixBase<Derived>::operator=(const EigenBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  return internal::assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,false>::evalTo(derived(), other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename Derived>
@@ -614,7 +81,8 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& MatrixBase<Derived>::operator=(const ReturnByValue<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  return internal::assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,false>::evalTo(derived(), other.derived());
+  other.derived().evalTo(derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/AssignEvaluator.h b/Eigen/src/Core/AssignEvaluator.h
index 5451a138f..8ab71446c 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/AssignEvaluator.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/AssignEvaluator.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // for linear algebra.
 //
 // Copyright (C) 2011 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
-// Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+// Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
 // Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Jitse Niesen <jitse@maths.leeds.ac.uk>
 //
 // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
@@ -24,37 +24,46 @@ namespace internal {
 
 // copy_using_evaluator_traits is based on assign_traits
 
-template <typename Derived, typename OtherDerived>
+template <typename DstEvaluator, typename SrcEvaluator, typename AssignFunc>
 struct copy_using_evaluator_traits
 {
+  typedef typename DstEvaluator::XprType Dst;
+  
+  enum {
+    DstFlags = DstEvaluator::Flags,
+    SrcFlags = SrcEvaluator::Flags
+  };
+  
 public:
   enum {
-    DstIsAligned = Derived::Flags & AlignedBit,
-    DstHasDirectAccess = Derived::Flags & DirectAccessBit,
-    SrcIsAligned = OtherDerived::Flags & AlignedBit,
-    JointAlignment = bool(DstIsAligned) && bool(SrcIsAligned) ? Aligned : Unaligned,
-    SrcEvalBeforeAssign = (evaluator_traits<OtherDerived>::HasEvalTo == 1)
+    DstIsAligned = DstFlags & AlignedBit,
+    DstHasDirectAccess = DstFlags & DirectAccessBit,
+    SrcIsAligned = SrcFlags & AlignedBit,
+    JointAlignment = bool(DstIsAligned) && bool(SrcIsAligned) ? Aligned : Unaligned
   };
 
 private:
   enum {
-    InnerSize = int(Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? int(Derived::ColsAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::RowsAtCompileTime),
-    InnerMaxSize = int(Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(Derived::MaxSizeAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? int(Derived::MaxColsAtCompileTime)
-              : int(Derived::MaxRowsAtCompileTime),
-    MaxSizeAtCompileTime = Derived::SizeAtCompileTime,
-    PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Derived::Scalar>::size
+    InnerSize = int(Dst::IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(Dst::SizeAtCompileTime)
+              : int(DstFlags)&RowMajorBit ? int(Dst::ColsAtCompileTime)
+              : int(Dst::RowsAtCompileTime),
+    InnerMaxSize = int(Dst::IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(Dst::MaxSizeAtCompileTime)
+              : int(DstFlags)&RowMajorBit ? int(Dst::MaxColsAtCompileTime)
+              : int(Dst::MaxRowsAtCompileTime),
+    MaxSizeAtCompileTime = Dst::SizeAtCompileTime,
+    PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Dst::Scalar>::size
   };
 
   enum {
-    StorageOrdersAgree = (int(Derived::IsRowMajor) == int(OtherDerived::IsRowMajor)),
+    DstIsRowMajor = DstFlags&RowMajorBit,
+    SrcIsRowMajor = SrcFlags&RowMajorBit,
+    StorageOrdersAgree = (int(DstIsRowMajor) == int(SrcIsRowMajor)),
     MightVectorize = StorageOrdersAgree
-                  && (int(Derived::Flags) & int(OtherDerived::Flags) & ActualPacketAccessBit),
+                  && (int(DstFlags) & int(SrcFlags) & ActualPacketAccessBit)
+                  && (functor_traits<AssignFunc>::PacketAccess),
     MayInnerVectorize  = MightVectorize && int(InnerSize)!=Dynamic && int(InnerSize)%int(PacketSize)==0
                        && int(DstIsAligned) && int(SrcIsAligned),
-    MayLinearize = StorageOrdersAgree && (int(Derived::Flags) & int(OtherDerived::Flags) & LinearAccessBit),
+    MayLinearize = StorageOrdersAgree && (int(DstFlags) & int(SrcFlags) & LinearAccessBit),
     MayLinearVectorize = MightVectorize && MayLinearize && DstHasDirectAccess
                        && (DstIsAligned || MaxSizeAtCompileTime == Dynamic),
       /* If the destination isn't aligned, we have to do runtime checks and we don't unroll,
@@ -68,8 +77,7 @@ private:
 
 public:
   enum {
-    Traversal = int(SrcEvalBeforeAssign) ? int(AllAtOnceTraversal) 
-              : int(MayInnerVectorize)   ? int(InnerVectorizedTraversal)
+    Traversal = int(MayInnerVectorize)   ? int(InnerVectorizedTraversal)
               : int(MayLinearVectorize)  ? int(LinearVectorizedTraversal)
               : int(MaySliceVectorize)   ? int(SliceVectorizedTraversal)
               : int(MayLinearize)        ? int(LinearTraversal)
@@ -82,12 +90,12 @@ public:
 private:
   enum {
     UnrollingLimit      = EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT * (Vectorized ? int(PacketSize) : 1),
-    MayUnrollCompletely = int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime) != Dynamic
-                       && int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) != Dynamic
-                       && int(Derived::SizeAtCompileTime) * int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) <= int(UnrollingLimit),
+    MayUnrollCompletely = int(Dst::SizeAtCompileTime) != Dynamic
+                       && int(SrcEvaluator::CoeffReadCost) != Dynamic
+                       && int(Dst::SizeAtCompileTime) * int(SrcEvaluator::CoeffReadCost) <= int(UnrollingLimit),
     MayUnrollInner      = int(InnerSize) != Dynamic
-                       && int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) != Dynamic
-                       && int(InnerSize) * int(OtherDerived::CoeffReadCost) <= int(UnrollingLimit)
+                       && int(SrcEvaluator::CoeffReadCost) != Dynamic
+                       && int(InnerSize) * int(SrcEvaluator::CoeffReadCost) <= int(UnrollingLimit)
   };
 
 public:
@@ -110,6 +118,12 @@ public:
 #ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
   static void debug()
   {
+    std::cerr << "DstXpr: " << typeid(typename DstEvaluator::XprType).name() << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "SrcXpr: " << typeid(typename SrcEvaluator::XprType).name() << std::endl;
+    std::cerr.setf(std::ios::hex, std::ios::basefield);
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(DstFlags)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(SrcFlags)
+    std::cerr.unsetf(std::ios::hex);
     EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(DstIsAligned)
     EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(SrcIsAligned)
     EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(JointAlignment)
@@ -127,6 +141,7 @@ public:
     EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayUnrollCompletely)
     EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayUnrollInner)
     EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Unrolling)
+    std::cerr << std::endl;
   }
 #endif
 };
@@ -142,6 +157,7 @@ public:
 template<typename Kernel, int Index, int Stop>
 struct copy_using_evaluator_DefaultTraversal_CompleteUnrolling
 {
+  // FIXME: this is not very clean, perhaps this information should be provided by the kernel?
   typedef typename Kernel::DstEvaluatorType DstEvaluatorType;
   typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::XprType DstXprType;
   
@@ -206,9 +222,10 @@ struct copy_using_evaluator_LinearTraversal_CompleteUnrolling<Kernel, Stop, Stop
 template<typename Kernel, int Index, int Stop>
 struct copy_using_evaluator_innervec_CompleteUnrolling
 {
+  // FIXME: this is not very clean, perhaps this information should be provided by the kernel?
   typedef typename Kernel::DstEvaluatorType DstEvaluatorType;
   typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::XprType DstXprType;
-
+  
   enum {
     outer = Index / DstXprType::InnerSizeAtCompileTime,
     inner = Index % DstXprType::InnerSizeAtCompileTime,
@@ -235,8 +252,7 @@ struct copy_using_evaluator_innervec_InnerUnrolling
   static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Kernel &kernel, int outer)
   {
     kernel.template assignPacketByOuterInner<Aligned, Aligned>(outer, Index);
-    typedef typename Kernel::DstEvaluatorType::XprType DstXprType;
-    enum { NextIndex = Index + packet_traits<typename DstXprType::Scalar>::size };
+    enum { NextIndex = Index + packet_traits<typename Kernel::Scalar>::size };
     copy_using_evaluator_innervec_InnerUnrolling<Kernel, NextIndex, Stop>::run(kernel, outer);
   }
 };
@@ -496,25 +512,8 @@ struct dense_assignment_loop<Kernel, SliceVectorizedTraversal, NoUnrolling>
   }
 };
 
-/****************************
-*** All-at-once traversal ***
-****************************/
-
-// TODO: this 'AllAtOnceTraversal' should be dropped or caught earlier (Gael)
-// Indeed, what to do with the kernel's functor??
-template<typename Kernel>
-struct dense_assignment_loop<Kernel, AllAtOnceTraversal, NoUnrolling>
-{
-  static inline void run(Kernel & kernel)
-  {
-    // Evaluate rhs in temporary to prevent aliasing problems in a = a * a;
-    // TODO: Do not pass the xpr object to evalTo() (Jitse)
-    kernel.srcEvaluator().evalTo(kernel.dstEvaluator(), kernel.dstExpression());
-  }
-};
-
 /***************************************************************************
-* Part 4 : Generic Assignment routine
+* Part 4 : Generic dense assignment kernel
 ***************************************************************************/
 
 // This class generalize the assignment of a coefficient (or packet) from one dense evaluator
@@ -523,7 +522,7 @@ struct dense_assignment_loop<Kernel, AllAtOnceTraversal, NoUnrolling>
 // This abstraction level permits to keep the evaluation loops as simple and as generic as possible.
 // One can customize the assignment using this generic dense_assignment_kernel with different
 // functors, or by completely overloading it, by-passing a functor.
-template<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT, typename SrcEvaluatorTypeT, typename Functor>
+template<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT, typename SrcEvaluatorTypeT, typename Functor, int Version = Specialized>
 class generic_dense_assignment_kernel
 {
 protected:
@@ -535,16 +534,22 @@ public:
   typedef SrcEvaluatorTypeT SrcEvaluatorType;
   typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::Scalar Scalar;
   typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::Index Index;
-  typedef copy_using_evaluator_traits<DstXprType, SrcXprType> AssignmentTraits;
+  typedef copy_using_evaluator_traits<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, Functor> AssignmentTraits;
   
   
   generic_dense_assignment_kernel(DstEvaluatorType &dst, const SrcEvaluatorType &src, const Functor &func, DstXprType& dstExpr)
     : m_dst(dst), m_src(src), m_functor(func), m_dstExpr(dstExpr)
-  {}
+  {
+    #ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
+    AssignmentTraits::debug();
+    #endif
+  }
   
   Index size() const        { return m_dstExpr.size(); }
   Index innerSize() const   { return m_dstExpr.innerSize(); }
   Index outerSize() const   { return m_dstExpr.outerSize(); }
+  Index rows() const        { return m_dstExpr.rows(); }
+  Index cols() const        { return m_dstExpr.cols(); }
   Index outerStride() const { return m_dstExpr.outerStride(); }
   
   // TODO get rid of this one:
@@ -553,16 +558,19 @@ public:
   DstEvaluatorType& dstEvaluator() { return m_dst; }
   const SrcEvaluatorType& srcEvaluator() const { return m_src; }
   
+  /// Assign src(row,col) to dst(row,col) through the assignment functor.
   void assignCoeff(Index row, Index col)
   {
     m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(row,col), m_src.coeff(row,col));
   }
   
+  /// \sa assignCoeff(Index,Index)
   void assignCoeff(Index index)
   {
     m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(index), m_src.coeff(index));
   }
   
+  /// \sa assignCoeff(Index,Index)
   void assignCoeffByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner)
   {
     Index row = rowIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner); 
@@ -596,7 +604,7 @@ public:
     typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::ExpressionTraits Traits;
     return int(Traits::RowsAtCompileTime) == 1 ? 0
       : int(Traits::ColsAtCompileTime) == 1 ? inner
-      : int(Traits::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? outer
+      : int(DstEvaluatorType::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? outer
       : inner;
   }
 
@@ -605,7 +613,7 @@ public:
     typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::ExpressionTraits Traits;
     return int(Traits::ColsAtCompileTime) == 1 ? 0
       : int(Traits::RowsAtCompileTime) == 1 ? inner
-      : int(Traits::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? inner
+      : int(DstEvaluatorType::Flags)&RowMajorBit ? inner
       : outer;
   }
   
@@ -617,13 +625,13 @@ protected:
   DstXprType& m_dstExpr;
 };
 
+/***************************************************************************
+* Part 5 : Entry point for dense rectangular assignment
+***************************************************************************/
+
 template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor>
 void call_dense_assignment_loop(const DstXprType& dst, const SrcXprType& src, const Functor &func)
 {
-#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
-  // TODO these traits should be computed from information provided by the evaluators
-  internal::copy_using_evaluator_traits<DstXprType, SrcXprType>::debug();
-#endif
   eigen_assert(dst.rows() == src.rows() && dst.cols() == src.cols());
   
   typedef typename evaluator<DstXprType>::type DstEvaluatorType;
@@ -645,195 +653,141 @@ void call_dense_assignment_loop(const DstXprType& dst, const SrcXprType& src)
 }
 
 /***************************************************************************
-* Part 5 : Entry points
+* Part 6 : Generic assignment
 ***************************************************************************/
 
-// Based on DenseBase::LazyAssign()
-// The following functions are just for testing and they are meant to be moved to operator= and the likes.
+// Based on the respective shapes of the destination and source,
+// the class AssignmentKind determine the kind of assignment mechanism.
+// AssignmentKind must define a Kind typedef.
+template<typename DstShape, typename SrcShape> struct AssignmentKind;
 
-template<typename DstXprType, template <typename> class StorageBase, typename SrcXprType>
-EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE
-const DstXprType& copy_using_evaluator(const NoAlias<DstXprType, StorageBase>& dst, 
-                                       const EigenBase<SrcXprType>& src)
-{
-  return noalias_copy_using_evaluator(dst.expression(), src.derived(), internal::assign_op<typename DstXprType::Scalar>());
-}
+// Assignement kind defined in this file:
+struct Dense2Dense {};
+struct EigenBase2EigenBase {};
 
-template<typename XprType, int AssumeAliasing = evaluator_traits<XprType>::AssumeAliasing>
-struct AddEvalIfAssumingAliasing;
+template<typename,typename> struct AssignmentKind { typedef EigenBase2EigenBase Kind; };
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<DenseShape,DenseShape> { typedef Dense2Dense Kind; };
+    
+// This is the main assignment class
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor,
+          typename Kind = typename AssignmentKind< typename evaluator_traits<DstXprType>::Shape , typename evaluator_traits<SrcXprType>::Shape >::Kind,
+          typename Scalar = typename DstXprType::Scalar>
+struct Assignment;
 
-template<typename XprType>
-struct AddEvalIfAssumingAliasing<XprType, 0>
-{
-  static const XprType& run(const XprType& xpr) 
-  {
-    return xpr;
-  }
-};
 
-template<typename XprType>
-struct AddEvalIfAssumingAliasing<XprType, 1>
-{
-  static const EvalToTemp<XprType> run(const XprType& xpr)
-  {
-    return EvalToTemp<XprType>(xpr);
-  }
-};
+// The only purpose of this call_assignment() function is to deal with noalias() / AssumeAliasing and automatic transposition.
+// Indeed, I (Gael) think that this concept of AssumeAliasing was a mistake, and it makes thing quite complicated.
+// So this intermediate function removes everything related to AssumeAliasing such that Assignment
+// does not has to bother about these annoying details.
 
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor>
-EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE
-const DstXprType& copy_using_evaluator(const EigenBase<DstXprType>& dst, const EigenBase<SrcXprType>& src, const Functor &func)
+template<typename Dst, typename Src>
+void call_assignment(Dst& dst, const Src& src)
 {
-  return noalias_copy_using_evaluator(dst.const_cast_derived(), 
-                                      AddEvalIfAssumingAliasing<SrcXprType>::run(src.derived()),
-                                      func
-                                     );
+  call_assignment(dst, src, internal::assign_op<typename Dst::Scalar>());
 }
-
-// this mimics operator=
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE
-const DstXprType& copy_using_evaluator(const EigenBase<DstXprType>& dst, const EigenBase<SrcXprType>& src)
+template<typename Dst, typename Src>
+void call_assignment(const Dst& dst, const Src& src)
 {
-  return copy_using_evaluator(dst.const_cast_derived(), src.derived(), internal::assign_op<typename DstXprType::Scalar>());
+  call_assignment(dst, src, internal::assign_op<typename Dst::Scalar>());
 }
-
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor>
-EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE
-const DstXprType& noalias_copy_using_evaluator(const PlainObjectBase<DstXprType>& dst, const EigenBase<SrcXprType>& src, const Functor &func)
+                     
+// Deal with AssumeAliasing
+template<typename Dst, typename Src, typename Func>
+void call_assignment(Dst& dst, const Src& src, const Func& func, typename enable_if<evaluator_traits<Src>::AssumeAliasing==1, void*>::type = 0)
 {
-#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
-  internal::copy_using_evaluator_traits<DstXprType, SrcXprType>::debug();
-#endif
-#ifdef EIGEN_NO_AUTOMATIC_RESIZING
-  eigen_assert((dst.size()==0 || (IsVectorAtCompileTime ? (dst.size() == src.size())
-                                                        : (dst.rows() == src.rows() && dst.cols() == src.cols())))
-              && "Size mismatch. Automatic resizing is disabled because EIGEN_NO_AUTOMATIC_RESIZING is defined");
-#else
-  dst.const_cast_derived().resizeLike(src.derived());
-#endif
-  call_dense_assignment_loop(dst.const_cast_derived(), src.derived(), func);
-  return dst.derived();
+  typename plain_matrix_type<Src>::type tmp(src);
+  call_assignment_no_alias(dst, tmp, func);
 }
 
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor>
-EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE
-const DstXprType& noalias_copy_using_evaluator(const EigenBase<DstXprType>& dst, const EigenBase<SrcXprType>& src, const Functor &func)
+template<typename Dst, typename Src, typename Func>
+void call_assignment(Dst& dst, const Src& src, const Func& func, typename enable_if<evaluator_traits<Src>::AssumeAliasing==0, void*>::type = 0)
 {
-  call_dense_assignment_loop(dst.const_cast_derived(), src.derived(), func);
-  return dst.derived();
+  call_assignment_no_alias(dst, src, func);
 }
 
-// Based on DenseBase::swap()
-// TODO: Check whether we need to do something special for swapping two
-//       Arrays or Matrices. (Jitse)
-
-// Overload default assignPacket behavior for swapping them
-template<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT, typename SrcEvaluatorTypeT>
-class swap_kernel : public generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, swap_assign_op<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::Scalar> >
+// by-pass AssumeAliasing
+// FIXME the const version should probably not be needed
+// When there is no aliasing, we require that 'dst' has been properly resized
+template<typename Dst, template <typename> class StorageBase, typename Src, typename Func>
+void call_assignment(const NoAlias<Dst,StorageBase>& dst, const Src& src, const Func& func)
 {
-  typedef generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, swap_assign_op<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::Scalar> > Base;
-  typedef typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
-  using Base::m_dst;
-  using Base::m_src;
-  using Base::m_functor;
-  
-public:
-  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
-  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
-  typedef typename Base::DstXprType DstXprType;
-  
-  swap_kernel(DstEvaluatorTypeT &dst, const SrcEvaluatorTypeT &src, DstXprType& dstExpr)
-    : Base(dst, src, swap_assign_op<Scalar>(), dstExpr)
-  {}
-  
-  template<int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-  void assignPacket(Index row, Index col)
-  {
-    m_functor.template swapPacket<StoreMode,LoadMode,PacketScalar>(&m_dst.coeffRef(row,col), &const_cast<SrcEvaluatorTypeT&>(m_src).coeffRef(row,col));
-  }
-  
-  template<int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-  void assignPacket(Index index)
-  {
-    m_functor.template swapPacket<StoreMode,LoadMode,PacketScalar>(&m_dst.coeffRef(index), &const_cast<SrcEvaluatorTypeT&>(m_src).coeffRef(index));
-  }
-  
-  // TODO find a simple way not to have to copy/paste this function from generic_dense_assignment_kernel, by simple I mean no CRTP (Gael)
-  template<int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-  void assignPacketByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner)
-  {
-    Index row = Base::rowIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner); 
-    Index col = Base::colIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner);
-    assignPacket<StoreMode,LoadMode>(row, col);
-  }
-};
-  
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void swap_using_evaluator(const DstXprType& dst, const SrcXprType& src)
-{
-  // TODO there is too much redundancy with call_dense_assignment_loop
-  
-  eigen_assert(dst.rows() == src.rows() && dst.cols() == src.cols());
-  
-  typedef typename evaluator<DstXprType>::type DstEvaluatorType;
-  typedef typename evaluator<SrcXprType>::type SrcEvaluatorType;
-
-  DstEvaluatorType dstEvaluator(dst);
-  SrcEvaluatorType srcEvaluator(src);
-    
-  typedef swap_kernel<DstEvaluatorType,SrcEvaluatorType> Kernel;
-  Kernel kernel(dstEvaluator, srcEvaluator, dst.const_cast_derived());
-  
-  dense_assignment_loop<Kernel>::run(kernel);
-}
-
-// Based on MatrixBase::operator+= (in CwiseBinaryOp.h)
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void add_assign_using_evaluator(const MatrixBase<DstXprType>& dst, const MatrixBase<SrcXprType>& src)
-{
-  typedef typename DstXprType::Scalar Scalar;
-  copy_using_evaluator(dst.derived(), src.derived(), add_assign_op<Scalar>());
+  call_assignment_no_alias(dst.expression(), src, func);
 }
-
-// Based on ArrayBase::operator+=
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void add_assign_using_evaluator(const ArrayBase<DstXprType>& dst, const ArrayBase<SrcXprType>& src)
+template<typename Dst, template <typename> class StorageBase, typename Src, typename Func>
+void call_assignment(NoAlias<Dst,StorageBase>& dst, const Src& src, const Func& func)
 {
-  typedef typename DstXprType::Scalar Scalar;
-  copy_using_evaluator(dst.derived(), src.derived(), add_assign_op<Scalar>());
+  call_assignment_no_alias(dst.expression(), src, func);
 }
 
-// TODO: Add add_assign_using_evaluator for EigenBase ? (Jitse)
 
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void subtract_assign_using_evaluator(const MatrixBase<DstXprType>& dst, const MatrixBase<SrcXprType>& src)
+template<typename Dst, typename Src, typename Func>
+void call_assignment_no_alias(Dst& dst, const Src& src, const Func& func)
 {
-  typedef typename DstXprType::Scalar Scalar;
-  copy_using_evaluator(dst.derived(), src.derived(), sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
-}
+  enum {
+    NeedToTranspose = (  (int(Dst::RowsAtCompileTime) == 1 && int(Src::ColsAtCompileTime) == 1)
+                        |   // FIXME | instead of || to please GCC 4.4.0 stupid warning "suggest parentheses around &&".
+                                // revert to || as soon as not needed anymore.
+                         (int(Dst::ColsAtCompileTime) == 1 && int(Src::RowsAtCompileTime) == 1))
+                     && int(Dst::SizeAtCompileTime) != 1
+  };
 
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void subtract_assign_using_evaluator(const ArrayBase<DstXprType>& dst, const ArrayBase<SrcXprType>& src)
-{
-  typedef typename DstXprType::Scalar Scalar;
-  copy_using_evaluator(dst.derived(), src.derived(), sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
+  typename Dst::Index dstRows = NeedToTranspose ? src.cols() : src.rows();
+  typename Dst::Index dstCols = NeedToTranspose ? src.rows() : src.cols();
+  if((dst.rows()!=dstRows) || (dst.cols()!=dstCols))
+    dst.resize(dstRows, dstCols);
+  
+  typedef typename internal::conditional<NeedToTranspose, Transpose<Dst>, Dst>::type ActualDstTypeCleaned;
+  typedef typename internal::conditional<NeedToTranspose, Transpose<Dst>, Dst&>::type ActualDstType;
+  ActualDstType actualDst(dst);
+  
+  // TODO check whether this is the right place to perform these checks:
+  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(Dst)
+  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SAME_MATRIX_SIZE(ActualDstTypeCleaned,Src)
+
+  // TODO this line is commented to allow matrix = permutation
+  // Actually, the "Scalar" type for a permutation matrix does not really make sense,
+  // perhaps it could be void, and EIGEN_CHECK_BINARY_COMPATIBILIY could allow micing void with anything...?
+//   EIGEN_CHECK_BINARY_COMPATIBILIY(Func,typename ActualDstTypeCleaned::Scalar,typename Src::Scalar);
+  
+  Assignment<ActualDstTypeCleaned,Src,Func>::run(actualDst, src, func);
 }
-
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void multiply_assign_using_evaluator(const ArrayBase<DstXprType>& dst, const ArrayBase<SrcXprType>& src)
+template<typename Dst, typename Src>
+void call_assignment_no_alias(Dst& dst, const Src& src)
 {
-  typedef typename DstXprType::Scalar Scalar;
-  copy_using_evaluator(dst.derived(), src.derived(), mul_assign_op<Scalar>());
+  call_assignment_no_alias(dst, src, internal::assign_op<typename Dst::Scalar>());
 }
 
-template<typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
-void divide_assign_using_evaluator(const ArrayBase<DstXprType>& dst, const ArrayBase<SrcXprType>& src)
+// forxard declaration
+template<typename Dst, typename Src> void check_for_aliasing(const Dst &dst, const Src &src);
+
+// Generic Dense to Dense assignment
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, SrcXprType, Functor, Dense2Dense, Scalar>
 {
-  typedef typename DstXprType::Scalar Scalar;
-  copy_using_evaluator(dst.derived(), src.derived(), div_assign_op<Scalar>());
-}
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const Functor &func)
+  {
+    eigen_assert(dst.rows() == src.rows() && dst.cols() == src.cols());
+    
+#ifndef EIGEN_NO_DEBUG
+    internal::check_for_aliasing(dst, src);
+#endif
+    
+    call_dense_assignment_loop(dst, src, func);
+  }
+};
 
+// Generic assignment through evalTo.
+// TODO: not sure we have to keep that one, but it helps porting current code to new evaluator mechanism.
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, SrcXprType, Functor, EigenBase2EigenBase, Scalar>
+{
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::assign_op<typename DstXprType::Scalar> &/*func*/)
+  {
+    eigen_assert(dst.rows() == src.rows() && dst.cols() == src.cols());
+    
+    src.evalTo(dst);
+  }
+};
 
 } // namespace internal
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/BandMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/BandMatrix.h
index ffd7fe8b3..b0ebe1160 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/BandMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/BandMatrix.h
@@ -327,6 +327,25 @@ class TridiagonalMatrix : public BandMatrix<Scalar,Size,Size,Options&SelfAdjoint
   protected:
 };
 
+
+struct BandShape {};
+
+template<typename _Scalar, int _Rows, int _Cols, int _Supers, int _Subs, int _Options>
+struct evaluator_traits<BandMatrix<_Scalar,_Rows,_Cols,_Supers,_Subs,_Options> >
+  : public evaluator_traits_base<BandMatrix<_Scalar,_Rows,_Cols,_Supers,_Subs,_Options> >
+{
+  typedef BandShape Shape;
+};
+
+template<typename _CoefficientsType,int _Rows, int _Cols, int _Supers, int _Subs,int _Options>
+struct evaluator_traits<BandMatrixWrapper<_CoefficientsType,_Rows,_Cols,_Supers,_Subs,_Options> >
+  : public evaluator_traits_base<BandMatrixWrapper<_CoefficientsType,_Rows,_Cols,_Supers,_Subs,_Options> >
+{
+  typedef BandShape Shape;
+};
+
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<DenseShape,BandShape> { typedef EigenBase2EigenBase Kind; };
+
 } // end namespace internal
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Block.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Block.h
index da193d1a2..737e5dc24 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Block.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Block.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct traits<Block<XprType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> > : traits<XprTyp
     MaxColsAtCompileTime = BlockCols==0 ? 0
                          : ColsAtCompileTime != Dynamic ? int(ColsAtCompileTime)
                          : int(traits<XprType>::MaxColsAtCompileTime),
+
     XprTypeIsRowMajor = (int(traits<XprType>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) != 0,
     IsRowMajor = (MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1&&MaxColsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 1
                : (MaxColsAtCompileTime==1&&MaxRowsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 0
@@ -80,18 +81,14 @@ struct traits<Block<XprType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> > : traits<XprTyp
     OuterStrideAtCompileTime = HasSameStorageOrderAsXprType
                              ? int(outer_stride_at_compile_time<XprType>::ret)
                              : int(inner_stride_at_compile_time<XprType>::ret),
-    MaskPacketAccessBit = (InnerSize == Dynamic || (InnerSize % packet_traits<Scalar>::size) == 0)
-                       && (InnerStrideAtCompileTime == 1)
-                        ? PacketAccessBit : 0,
-    MaskAlignedBit = (InnerPanel && (OuterStrideAtCompileTime!=Dynamic) && (((OuterStrideAtCompileTime * int(sizeof(Scalar))) % EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES) == 0)) ? AlignedBit : 0,
-    FlagsLinearAccessBit = (RowsAtCompileTime == 1 || ColsAtCompileTime == 1 || (InnerPanel && (traits<XprType>::Flags&LinearAccessBit))) ? LinearAccessBit : 0,
+    // IsAligned is needed by MapBase's assertions
+    // We can sefely set it to false here. Internal alignment errors will be detected by an eigen_internal_assert in the respective evaluator
+    IsAligned = 0,
+    // FIXME, this traits is rather specialized for dense object and it needs to be cleaned further
     FlagsLvalueBit = is_lvalue<XprType>::value ? LvalueBit : 0,
     FlagsRowMajorBit = IsRowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0,
-    Flags0 = traits<XprType>::Flags & ( (HereditaryBits & ~RowMajorBit) |
-                                        DirectAccessBit |
-                                        MaskPacketAccessBit |
-                                        MaskAlignedBit),
-    Flags = Flags0 | FlagsLinearAccessBit | FlagsLvalueBit | FlagsRowMajorBit
+    Flags = (traits<XprType>::Flags & DirectAccessBit) | FlagsLvalueBit | FlagsRowMajorBit
+    // FIXME DirectAccessBit should not be handled by expressions
   };
 };
 
@@ -111,6 +108,8 @@ template<typename XprType, int BlockRows, int BlockCols, bool InnerPanel> class
     typedef Impl Base;
     EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Block)
     EIGEN_INHERIT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATORS(Block)
+    
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<XprType>::type NestedExpression;
   
     /** Column or Row constructor
       */
@@ -333,6 +332,9 @@ class BlockImpl_dense<XprType,BlockRows,BlockCols, InnerPanel,true>
   : public MapBase<Block<XprType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> >
 {
     typedef Block<XprType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> BlockType;
+    enum {
+      XprTypeIsRowMajor = (int(traits<XprType>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) != 0
+    };
   public:
 
     typedef MapBase<BlockType> Base;
@@ -343,9 +345,8 @@ class BlockImpl_dense<XprType,BlockRows,BlockCols, InnerPanel,true>
       */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline BlockImpl_dense(XprType& xpr, Index i)
-      : Base(internal::const_cast_ptr(&xpr.coeffRef(
-              (BlockRows==1) && (BlockCols==XprType::ColsAtCompileTime) ? i : 0,
-              (BlockRows==XprType::RowsAtCompileTime) && (BlockCols==1) ? i : 0)),
+      : Base(xpr.data() + i * (    ((BlockRows==1) && (BlockCols==XprType::ColsAtCompileTime) && (!XprTypeIsRowMajor)) 
+                                || ((BlockRows==XprType::RowsAtCompileTime) && (BlockCols==1) && ( XprTypeIsRowMajor)) ? xpr.innerStride() : xpr.outerStride()),
              BlockRows==1 ? 1 : xpr.rows(),
              BlockCols==1 ? 1 : xpr.cols()),
         m_xpr(xpr)
@@ -357,7 +358,8 @@ class BlockImpl_dense<XprType,BlockRows,BlockCols, InnerPanel,true>
       */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline BlockImpl_dense(XprType& xpr, Index startRow, Index startCol)
-      : Base(internal::const_cast_ptr(&xpr.coeffRef(startRow,startCol))), m_xpr(xpr)
+      : Base(xpr.data()+xpr.innerStride()*(XprTypeIsRowMajor?startCol:startRow) + xpr.outerStride()*(XprTypeIsRowMajor?startRow:startCol)),
+        m_xpr(xpr)
     {
       init();
     }
@@ -368,7 +370,7 @@ class BlockImpl_dense<XprType,BlockRows,BlockCols, InnerPanel,true>
     inline BlockImpl_dense(XprType& xpr,
           Index startRow, Index startCol,
           Index blockRows, Index blockCols)
-      : Base(internal::const_cast_ptr(&xpr.coeffRef(startRow,startCol)), blockRows, blockCols),
+      : Base(xpr.data()+xpr.innerStride()*(XprTypeIsRowMajor?startCol:startRow) + xpr.outerStride()*(XprTypeIsRowMajor?startRow:startCol), blockRows, blockCols),
         m_xpr(xpr)
     {
       init();
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/BooleanRedux.h b/Eigen/src/Core/BooleanRedux.h
index be9f48a8c..dac1887e0 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/BooleanRedux.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/BooleanRedux.h
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ namespace internal {
 template<typename Derived, int UnrollCount>
 struct all_unroller
 {
+  typedef typename Derived::ExpressionTraits Traits;
   enum {
-    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Derived::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Derived::RowsAtCompileTime
+    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Traits::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Traits::RowsAtCompileTime
   };
 
   static inline bool run(const Derived &mat)
@@ -43,11 +44,12 @@ struct all_unroller<Derived, Dynamic>
 template<typename Derived, int UnrollCount>
 struct any_unroller
 {
+  typedef typename Derived::ExpressionTraits Traits;
   enum {
-    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Derived::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Derived::RowsAtCompileTime
+    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Traits::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Traits::RowsAtCompileTime
   };
-
+  
   static inline bool run(const Derived &mat)
   {
     return any_unroller<Derived, UnrollCount-1>::run(mat) || mat.coeff(row, col);
@@ -78,19 +80,21 @@ struct any_unroller<Derived, Dynamic>
 template<typename Derived>
 inline bool DenseBase<Derived>::all() const
 {
+  typedef typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type Evaluator;
   enum {
     unroll = SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
-          && CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
+          && Evaluator::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
           && NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost != Dynamic
-          && SizeAtCompileTime * (CoeffReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost) <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
+          && SizeAtCompileTime * (Evaluator::CoeffReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost) <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
   };
+  Evaluator evaluator(derived());
   if(unroll)
-    return internal::all_unroller<Derived, unroll ? int(SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic>::run(derived());
+    return internal::all_unroller<Evaluator, unroll ? int(SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic>::run(evaluator);
   else
   {
     for(Index j = 0; j < cols(); ++j)
       for(Index i = 0; i < rows(); ++i)
-        if (!coeff(i, j)) return false;
+        if (!evaluator.coeff(i, j)) return false;
     return true;
   }
 }
@@ -102,19 +106,21 @@ inline bool DenseBase<Derived>::all() const
 template<typename Derived>
 inline bool DenseBase<Derived>::any() const
 {
+  typedef typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type Evaluator;
   enum {
     unroll = SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
-          && CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
+          && Evaluator::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
           && NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost != Dynamic
-          && SizeAtCompileTime * (CoeffReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost) <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
+          && SizeAtCompileTime * (Evaluator::CoeffReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost) <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
   };
+  Evaluator evaluator(derived());
   if(unroll)
-    return internal::any_unroller<Derived, unroll ? int(SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic>::run(derived());
+    return internal::any_unroller<Evaluator, unroll ? int(SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic>::run(evaluator);
   else
   {
     for(Index j = 0; j < cols(); ++j)
       for(Index i = 0; i < rows(); ++i)
-        if (coeff(i, j)) return true;
+        if (evaluator.coeff(i, j)) return true;
     return false;
   }
 }
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/CoreEvaluators.h b/Eigen/src/Core/CoreEvaluators.h
index 3568cb85f..09a83a382 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/CoreEvaluators.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/CoreEvaluators.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // for linear algebra.
 //
 // Copyright (C) 2011 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
-// Copyright (C) 2011 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+// Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
 // Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Jitse Niesen <jitse@maths.leeds.ac.uk>
 //
 // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
@@ -14,57 +14,83 @@
 #define EIGEN_COREEVALUATORS_H
 
 namespace Eigen {
-
+  
 namespace internal {
 
-// evaluator_traits<T> contains traits for evaluator_impl<T> 
+struct IndexBased {};
+struct IteratorBased {};
+
+// This class returns the evaluator kind from the expression storage kind.
+// Default assumes index based accessors
+template<typename StorageKind>
+struct storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind {
+  typedef IndexBased Kind;
+};
+
+// This class returns the evaluator shape from the expression storage kind.
+// It can be Dense, Sparse, Triangular, Diagonal, SelfAdjoint, Band, etc.
+template<typename StorageKind> struct storage_kind_to_shape;
+
+
+template<> struct storage_kind_to_shape<Dense> { typedef DenseShape Shape; };
+
+// Evaluators have to be specialized with respect to various criteria such as:
+//  - storage/structure/shape
+//  - scalar type
+//  - etc.
+// Therefore, we need specialization of evaluator providing additional template arguments for each kind of evaluators.
+// We currently distinguish the following kind of evaluators:
+// - unary_evaluator    for expressions taking only one arguments (CwiseUnaryOp, CwiseUnaryView, Transpose, MatrixWrapper, ArrayWrapper, Reverse, Replicate)
+// - binary_evaluator   for expression taking two arguments (CwiseBinaryOp)
+// - product_evaluator  for linear algebra products (Product); special case of binary_evaluator because it requires additional tags for dispatching.
+// - mapbase_evaluator  for Map, Block, Ref
+// - block_evaluator    for Block (special dispatching to a mapbase_evaluator or unary_evaluator)
+
+template< typename T,
+          typename LhsKind   = typename evaluator_traits<typename T::Lhs>::Kind,
+          typename RhsKind   = typename evaluator_traits<typename T::Rhs>::Kind,
+          typename LhsScalar = typename traits<typename T::Lhs>::Scalar,
+          typename RhsScalar = typename traits<typename T::Rhs>::Scalar> struct binary_evaluator;
+
+template< typename T,
+          typename Kind   = typename evaluator_traits<typename T::NestedExpression>::Kind,
+          typename Scalar = typename T::Scalar> struct unary_evaluator;
+          
+// evaluator_traits<T> contains traits for evaluator<T> 
 
 template<typename T>
-struct evaluator_traits
+struct evaluator_traits_base
 {
-  // 1 if evaluator_impl<T>::evalTo() exists
-  // 0 if evaluator_impl<T> allows coefficient-based access
-  static const int HasEvalTo = 0;
-
+  // TODO check whether these two indirections are really needed.
+  // Basically, if nobody overwrite type and nestedType, then, they can be dropped
+//   typedef evaluator<T> type;
+//   typedef evaluator<T> nestedType;
+  
+  // by default, get evaluator kind and shape from storage
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind<typename traits<T>::StorageKind>::Kind Kind;
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_shape<typename traits<T>::StorageKind>::Shape Shape;
+  
   // 1 if assignment A = B assumes aliasing when B is of type T and thus B needs to be evaluated into a
   // temporary; 0 if not.
   static const int AssumeAliasing = 0;
 };
 
-// expression class for evaluating nested expression to a temporary
- 
-template<typename ArgType>
-class EvalToTemp;
-
-// evaluator<T>::type is type of evaluator for T
-// evaluator<T>::nestedType is type of evaluator if T is nested inside another evaluator
- 
-template<typename T>
-struct evaluator_impl 
-{ };
- 
-template<typename T, int Nested = evaluator_traits<T>::HasEvalTo>
-struct evaluator_nested_type;
-
+// Default evaluator traits
 template<typename T>
-struct evaluator_nested_type<T, 0>
+struct evaluator_traits : public evaluator_traits_base<T>
 {
-  typedef evaluator_impl<T> type;
 };
 
-template<typename T>
-struct evaluator_nested_type<T, 1>
-{
-  typedef evaluator_impl<EvalToTemp<T> > type;
-};
 
+// By default, we assume a unary expression:
 template<typename T>
-struct evaluator
+struct evaluator : public unary_evaluator<T>
 {
-  typedef evaluator_impl<T> type;
-  typedef typename evaluator_nested_type<T>::type nestedType;
+  typedef unary_evaluator<T> Base;
+  evaluator(const T& xpr) : Base(xpr) {}
 };
 
+
 // TODO: Think about const-correctness
 
 template<typename T>
@@ -76,46 +102,58 @@ struct evaluator<const T>
 
 // TODO this class does not seem to be necessary anymore
 template<typename ExpressionType>
-struct evaluator_impl_base
+struct evaluator_base
 {
-  typedef typename ExpressionType::Index Index;
+//   typedef typename evaluator_traits<ExpressionType>::type type;
+//   typedef typename evaluator_traits<ExpressionType>::nestedType nestedType;
+  typedef evaluator<ExpressionType> type;
+  typedef evaluator<ExpressionType> nestedType;
+  
+  typedef typename traits<ExpressionType>::Index Index;
   // TODO that's not very nice to have to propagate all these traits. They are currently only needed to handle outer,inner indices.
   typedef traits<ExpressionType> ExpressionTraits;
-
-  evaluator_impl<ExpressionType>& derived() 
-  {
-    return *static_cast<evaluator_impl<ExpressionType>*>(this); 
-  }
 };
 
 // -------------------- Matrix and Array --------------------
 //
-// evaluator_impl<PlainObjectBase> is a common base class for the
+// evaluator<PlainObjectBase> is a common base class for the
 // Matrix and Array evaluators.
+// Here we directly specialize evaluator. This is not really a unary expression, and it is, by definition, dense,
+// so no need for more sophisticated dispatching.
 
 template<typename Derived>
-struct evaluator_impl<PlainObjectBase<Derived> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Derived>
+struct evaluator<PlainObjectBase<Derived> >
+  : evaluator_base<Derived>
 {
   typedef PlainObjectBase<Derived> PlainObjectType;
+  typedef typename PlainObjectType::Index Index;
+  typedef typename PlainObjectType::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename PlainObjectType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
+  typedef typename PlainObjectType::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
+  typedef typename PlainObjectType::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
 
   enum {
     IsRowMajor = PlainObjectType::IsRowMajor,
     IsVectorAtCompileTime = PlainObjectType::IsVectorAtCompileTime,
     RowsAtCompileTime = PlainObjectType::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    ColsAtCompileTime = PlainObjectType::ColsAtCompileTime
+    ColsAtCompileTime = PlainObjectType::ColsAtCompileTime,
+    
+    CoeffReadCost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost,
+    Flags = compute_matrix_evaluator_flags< Scalar,Derived::RowsAtCompileTime,Derived::ColsAtCompileTime,
+                                            Derived::Options,Derived::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,Derived::MaxColsAtCompileTime>::ret
   };
-
-  evaluator_impl(const PlainObjectType& m) 
+  
+  evaluator()
+    : m_data(0),
+      m_outerStride(IsVectorAtCompileTime  ? 0 
+                                           : int(IsRowMajor) ? ColsAtCompileTime 
+                                           : RowsAtCompileTime)
+  {}
+  
+  evaluator(const PlainObjectType& m) 
     : m_data(m.data()), m_outerStride(IsVectorAtCompileTime ? 0 : m.outerStride()) 
   { }
 
-  typedef typename PlainObjectType::Index Index;
-  typedef typename PlainObjectType::Scalar Scalar;
-  typedef typename PlainObjectType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
-  typedef typename PlainObjectType::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
-  typedef typename PlainObjectType::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
-
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
   {
     if (IsRowMajor)
@@ -184,153 +222,45 @@ protected:
 };
 
 template<typename Scalar, int Rows, int Cols, int Options, int MaxRows, int MaxCols>
-struct evaluator_impl<Matrix<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> >
-  : evaluator_impl<PlainObjectBase<Matrix<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> > >
+struct evaluator<Matrix<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> >
+  : evaluator<PlainObjectBase<Matrix<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> > >
 {
   typedef Matrix<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> XprType;
+  
+  evaluator() {}
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& m) 
-    : evaluator_impl<PlainObjectBase<XprType> >(m) 
+  evaluator(const XprType& m) 
+    : evaluator<PlainObjectBase<XprType> >(m) 
   { }
 };
 
 template<typename Scalar, int Rows, int Cols, int Options, int MaxRows, int MaxCols>
-struct evaluator_impl<Array<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> >
-  : evaluator_impl<PlainObjectBase<Array<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> > >
+struct evaluator<Array<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> >
+  : evaluator<PlainObjectBase<Array<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> > >
 {
   typedef Array<Scalar, Rows, Cols, Options, MaxRows, MaxCols> XprType;
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& m) 
-    : evaluator_impl<PlainObjectBase<XprType> >(m) 
-  { }
-};
-
-// -------------------- EvalToTemp --------------------
-
-template<typename ArgType>
-struct traits<EvalToTemp<ArgType> >
-  : public traits<ArgType>
-{ };
-
-template<typename ArgType>
-class EvalToTemp
-  : public dense_xpr_base<EvalToTemp<ArgType> >::type
-{
- public:
- 
-  typedef typename dense_xpr_base<EvalToTemp>::type Base;
-  EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(EvalToTemp)
- 
-  EvalToTemp(const ArgType& arg)
-    : m_arg(arg)
-  { }
- 
-  const ArgType& arg() const
-  {
-    return m_arg;
-  }
-
-  Index rows() const 
-  {
-    return m_arg.rows();
-  }
-
-  Index cols() const 
-  {
-    return m_arg.cols();
-  }
-
- private:
-  const ArgType& m_arg;
-};
- 
-template<typename ArgType>
-struct evaluator_impl<EvalToTemp<ArgType> >
-{
-  typedef EvalToTemp<ArgType> XprType;
-  typedef typename ArgType::PlainObject PlainObject;
-
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& xpr) 
-    : m_result(xpr.rows(), xpr.cols()), m_resultImpl(m_result)
-  {
-    // TODO we should simply do m_result(xpr.arg());
-    call_dense_assignment_loop(m_result, xpr.arg());
-  }
-
-  // This constructor is used when nesting an EvalTo evaluator in another evaluator
-  evaluator_impl(const ArgType& arg) 
-    : m_result(arg.rows(), arg.cols()), m_resultImpl(m_result)
-  {
-    // TODO we should simply do m_result(xpr.arg());
-    call_dense_assignment_loop(m_result, arg);
-  }
-
-  typedef typename PlainObject::Index Index;
-  typedef typename PlainObject::Scalar Scalar;
-  typedef typename PlainObject::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
-  typedef typename PlainObject::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
-  typedef typename PlainObject::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
-
-  // All other functions are forwarded to m_resultImpl
-
-  CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const 
-  { 
-    return m_resultImpl.coeff(row, col); 
-  }
-  
-  CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const 
-  { 
-    return m_resultImpl.coeff(index); 
-  }
+  evaluator() {}
   
-  Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col) 
-  { 
-    return m_resultImpl.coeffRef(row, col); 
-  }
-  
-  Scalar& coeffRef(Index index) 
-  { 
-    return m_resultImpl.coeffRef(index); 
-  }
-
-  template<int LoadMode> 
-  PacketReturnType packet(Index row, Index col) const
-  {
-    return m_resultImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col);
-  }
-
-  template<int LoadMode> 
-  PacketReturnType packet(Index index) const
-  {
-    return m_resultImpl.packet<LoadMode>(index);
-  }
-
-  template<int StoreMode> 
-  void writePacket(Index row, Index col, const PacketScalar& x)
-  {
-    m_resultImpl.template writePacket<StoreMode>(row, col, x);
-  }
-
-  template<int StoreMode> 
-  void writePacket(Index index, const PacketScalar& x)
-  {
-    m_resultImpl.template writePacket<StoreMode>(index, x);
-  }
-
-protected:
-  PlainObject m_result;
-  typename evaluator<PlainObject>::nestedType m_resultImpl;
+  evaluator(const XprType& m) 
+    : evaluator<PlainObjectBase<XprType> >(m) 
+  { }
 };
 
 // -------------------- Transpose --------------------
 
 template<typename ArgType>
-struct evaluator_impl<Transpose<ArgType> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Transpose<ArgType> >
+struct unary_evaluator<Transpose<ArgType>, IndexBased>
+  : evaluator_base<Transpose<ArgType> >
 {
   typedef Transpose<ArgType> XprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost,    
+    Flags = evaluator<ArgType>::Flags ^ RowMajorBit
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& t) : m_argImpl(t.nestedExpression()) {}
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& t) : m_argImpl(t.nestedExpression()) {}
 
   typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
   typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar;
@@ -387,13 +317,27 @@ protected:
 };
 
 // -------------------- CwiseNullaryOp --------------------
+// Like Matrix and Array, this is not really a unary expression, so we directly specialize evaluator.
+// Likewise, there is not need to more sophisticated dispatching here.
 
 template<typename NullaryOp, typename PlainObjectType>
-struct evaluator_impl<CwiseNullaryOp<NullaryOp,PlainObjectType> >
+struct evaluator<CwiseNullaryOp<NullaryOp,PlainObjectType> >
+  : evaluator_base<CwiseNullaryOp<NullaryOp,PlainObjectType> >
 {
   typedef CwiseNullaryOp<NullaryOp,PlainObjectType> XprType;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<PlainObjectType>::type PlainObjectTypeCleaned;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = internal::functor_traits<NullaryOp>::Cost,
+    
+    Flags = (evaluator<PlainObjectTypeCleaned>::Flags
+          &  (  HereditaryBits
+              | (functor_has_linear_access<NullaryOp>::ret  ? LinearAccessBit : 0)
+              | (functor_traits<NullaryOp>::PacketAccess    ? PacketAccessBit : 0)))
+          | (functor_traits<NullaryOp>::IsRepeatable ? 0 : EvalBeforeNestingBit) // FIXME EvalBeforeNestingBit should be needed anymore
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& n) 
+  evaluator(const XprType& n) 
     : m_functor(n.functor()) 
   { }
 
@@ -430,11 +374,20 @@ protected:
 // -------------------- CwiseUnaryOp --------------------
 
 template<typename UnaryOp, typename ArgType>
-struct evaluator_impl<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, ArgType> >
+struct unary_evaluator<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, ArgType>, IndexBased >
+  : evaluator_base<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, ArgType> >
 {
   typedef CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, ArgType> XprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost + functor_traits<UnaryOp>::Cost,
+    
+    Flags = evaluator<ArgType>::Flags & (
+              HereditaryBits | LinearAccessBit | AlignedBit
+            | (functor_traits<UnaryOp>::PacketAccess ? PacketAccessBit : 0))
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& op) 
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& op) 
     : m_functor(op.functor()), 
       m_argImpl(op.nestedExpression()) 
   { }
@@ -472,12 +425,43 @@ protected:
 
 // -------------------- CwiseBinaryOp --------------------
 
+// this is a binary expression
 template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct evaluator_impl<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
+struct evaluator<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
+  : public binary_evaluator<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
 {
   typedef CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> XprType;
+  typedef binary_evaluator<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> > Base;
+  
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr) : Base(xpr) {}
+};
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& xpr) 
+template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+struct binary_evaluator<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs>, IndexBased, IndexBased>
+  : evaluator_base<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
+{
+  typedef CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> XprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<Lhs>::CoeffReadCost + evaluator<Rhs>::CoeffReadCost + functor_traits<BinaryOp>::Cost,
+    
+    LhsFlags = evaluator<Lhs>::Flags,
+    RhsFlags = evaluator<Rhs>::Flags,
+    SameType = is_same<typename Lhs::Scalar,typename Rhs::Scalar>::value,
+    StorageOrdersAgree = (int(LhsFlags)&RowMajorBit)==(int(RhsFlags)&RowMajorBit),
+    Flags0 = (int(LhsFlags) | int(RhsFlags)) & (
+        HereditaryBits
+      | (int(LhsFlags) & int(RhsFlags) &
+           ( AlignedBit
+           | (StorageOrdersAgree ? LinearAccessBit : 0)
+           | (functor_traits<BinaryOp>::PacketAccess && StorageOrdersAgree && SameType ? PacketAccessBit : 0)
+           )
+        )
+     ),
+    Flags = (Flags0 & ~RowMajorBit) | (LhsFlags & RowMajorBit)
+  };
+
+  binary_evaluator(const XprType& xpr) 
     : m_functor(xpr.functor()),
       m_lhsImpl(xpr.lhs()), 
       m_rhsImpl(xpr.rhs())  
@@ -501,14 +485,14 @@ struct evaluator_impl<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
   PacketScalar packet(Index row, Index col) const
   {
     return m_functor.packetOp(m_lhsImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col),
-			      m_rhsImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col));
+                              m_rhsImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col));
   }
 
   template<int LoadMode>
   PacketScalar packet(Index index) const
   {
     return m_functor.packetOp(m_lhsImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(index),
-			      m_rhsImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(index));
+                              m_rhsImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(index));
   }
 
 protected:
@@ -520,12 +504,18 @@ protected:
 // -------------------- CwiseUnaryView --------------------
 
 template<typename UnaryOp, typename ArgType>
-struct evaluator_impl<CwiseUnaryView<UnaryOp, ArgType> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<CwiseUnaryView<UnaryOp, ArgType> >
+struct unary_evaluator<CwiseUnaryView<UnaryOp, ArgType>, IndexBased>
+  : evaluator_base<CwiseUnaryView<UnaryOp, ArgType> >
 {
   typedef CwiseUnaryView<UnaryOp, ArgType> XprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost + functor_traits<UnaryOp>::Cost,
+    
+    Flags = (evaluator<ArgType>::Flags & (HereditaryBits | LinearAccessBit | DirectAccessBit))
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& op) 
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& op) 
     : m_unaryOp(op.functor()), 
       m_argImpl(op.nestedExpression()) 
   { }
@@ -561,13 +551,15 @@ protected:
 
 // -------------------- Map --------------------
 
-template<typename Derived, int AccessorsType>
-struct evaluator_impl<MapBase<Derived, AccessorsType> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Derived>
-{
-  typedef MapBase<Derived, AccessorsType> MapType;
-  typedef Derived XprType;
+// FIXME perhaps the PlainObjectType could be provided by Derived::PlainObject ?
+// but that might complicate template specialization
+template<typename Derived, typename PlainObjectType>
+struct mapbase_evaluator;
 
+template<typename Derived, typename PlainObjectType>
+struct mapbase_evaluator : evaluator_base<Derived>
+{
+  typedef Derived  XprType;
   typedef typename XprType::PointerType PointerType;
   typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
   typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar;
@@ -575,81 +567,121 @@ struct evaluator_impl<MapBase<Derived, AccessorsType> >
   typedef typename XprType::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
   typedef typename XprType::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
   
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& map) 
-    : m_data(const_cast<PointerType>(map.data())),  
-      m_rowStride(map.rowStride()),
-      m_colStride(map.colStride())
-  { }
- 
   enum {
-    RowsAtCompileTime = XprType::RowsAtCompileTime
+    IsRowMajor = XprType::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    ColsAtCompileTime = XprType::ColsAtCompileTime,
+    CoeffReadCost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost
   };
+  
+  mapbase_evaluator(const XprType& map) 
+    : m_data(const_cast<PointerType>(map.data())),  
+      m_xpr(map)
+  {
+    EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(EIGEN_IMPLIES(evaluator<Derived>::Flags&PacketAccessBit, internal::inner_stride_at_compile_time<Derived>::ret==1),
+                        PACKET_ACCESS_REQUIRES_TO_HAVE_INNER_STRIDE_FIXED_TO_1);
+  }
  
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const 
-  { 
-    return m_data[col * m_colStride + row * m_rowStride];
+  {
+    return m_data[col * m_xpr.colStride() + row * m_xpr.rowStride()];
   }
   
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const 
-  { 
-    return coeff(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-		 RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
+  {
+    return m_data[index * m_xpr.innerStride()];
   }
 
   Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col) 
-  { 
-    return m_data[col * m_colStride + row * m_rowStride];
+  {
+    return m_data[col * m_xpr.colStride() + row * m_xpr.rowStride()];
   }
   
   Scalar& coeffRef(Index index) 
-  { 
-    return coeffRef(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-		    RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
+  {
+    return m_data[index * m_xpr.innerStride()];
   }
  
   template<int LoadMode> 
   PacketReturnType packet(Index row, Index col) const 
-  { 
-    PointerType ptr = m_data + row * m_rowStride + col * m_colStride;
+  {
+    PointerType ptr = m_data + row * m_xpr.rowStride() + col * m_xpr.colStride();
     return internal::ploadt<PacketScalar, LoadMode>(ptr);
   }
 
   template<int LoadMode> 
   PacketReturnType packet(Index index) const 
-  { 
-    return packet<LoadMode>(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-			    RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
+  {
+    return internal::ploadt<PacketScalar, LoadMode>(m_data + index * m_xpr.innerStride());
   }
   
   template<int StoreMode> 
   void writePacket(Index row, Index col, const PacketScalar& x) 
-  { 
-    PointerType ptr = m_data + row * m_rowStride + col * m_colStride;
+  {
+    PointerType ptr = m_data + row * m_xpr.rowStride() + col * m_xpr.colStride();
     return internal::pstoret<Scalar, PacketScalar, StoreMode>(ptr, x);
   }
   
   template<int StoreMode> 
   void writePacket(Index index, const PacketScalar& x) 
-  { 
-    return writePacket<StoreMode>(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-				  RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0,
-				  x);
+  {
+    internal::pstoret<Scalar, PacketScalar, StoreMode>(m_data + index * m_xpr.innerStride(), x);
   }
  
 protected:
   PointerType m_data;
-  int m_rowStride;
-  int m_colStride;
+  const XprType& m_xpr;
 };
 
 template<typename PlainObjectType, int MapOptions, typename StrideType> 
-struct evaluator_impl<Map<PlainObjectType, MapOptions, StrideType> >
-  : public evaluator_impl<MapBase<Map<PlainObjectType, MapOptions, StrideType> > >
+struct evaluator<Map<PlainObjectType, MapOptions, StrideType> >
+  : public mapbase_evaluator<Map<PlainObjectType, MapOptions, StrideType>, PlainObjectType>
 {
   typedef Map<PlainObjectType, MapOptions, StrideType> XprType;
+  typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  enum {
+    InnerStrideAtCompileTime = StrideType::InnerStrideAtCompileTime == 0
+                             ? int(PlainObjectType::InnerStrideAtCompileTime)
+                             : int(StrideType::InnerStrideAtCompileTime),
+    OuterStrideAtCompileTime = StrideType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime == 0
+                             ? int(PlainObjectType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime)
+                             : int(StrideType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime),
+    HasNoInnerStride = InnerStrideAtCompileTime == 1,
+    HasNoOuterStride = StrideType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime == 0,
+    HasNoStride = HasNoInnerStride && HasNoOuterStride,
+    IsAligned = bool(EIGEN_ALIGN) && ((int(MapOptions)&Aligned)==Aligned),
+    IsDynamicSize = PlainObjectType::SizeAtCompileTime==Dynamic,
+    KeepsPacketAccess = bool(HasNoInnerStride)
+                        && ( bool(IsDynamicSize)
+                           || HasNoOuterStride
+                           || ( OuterStrideAtCompileTime!=Dynamic
+                           && ((static_cast<int>(sizeof(Scalar))*OuterStrideAtCompileTime)%EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES)==0 ) ),
+    Flags0 = evaluator<PlainObjectType>::Flags,
+    Flags1 = IsAligned ? (int(Flags0) | AlignedBit) : (int(Flags0) & ~AlignedBit),
+    Flags2 = (bool(HasNoStride) || bool(PlainObjectType::IsVectorAtCompileTime))
+           ? int(Flags1) : int(Flags1 & ~LinearAccessBit),
+    Flags = KeepsPacketAccess ? int(Flags2) : (int(Flags2) & ~PacketAccessBit)
+  };
+
+  evaluator(const XprType& map) 
+    : mapbase_evaluator<XprType, PlainObjectType>(map) 
+  { }
+};
+
+// -------------------- Ref --------------------
+
+template<typename PlainObjectType, int RefOptions, typename StrideType> 
+struct evaluator<Ref<PlainObjectType, RefOptions, StrideType> >
+  : public mapbase_evaluator<Ref<PlainObjectType, RefOptions, StrideType>, PlainObjectType>
+{
+  typedef Ref<PlainObjectType, RefOptions, StrideType> XprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    Flags = evaluator<Map<PlainObjectType, RefOptions, StrideType> >::Flags
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& map) 
-    : evaluator_impl<MapBase<XprType> >(map) 
+  evaluator(const XprType& ref) 
+    : mapbase_evaluator<XprType, PlainObjectType>(ref) 
   { }
 };
 
@@ -659,21 +691,68 @@ template<typename ArgType, int BlockRows, int BlockCols, bool InnerPanel,
          bool HasDirectAccess = internal::has_direct_access<ArgType>::ret> struct block_evaluator;
          
 template<typename ArgType, int BlockRows, int BlockCols, bool InnerPanel> 
-struct evaluator_impl<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> >
+struct evaluator<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> >
   : block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel>
 {
   typedef Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> XprType;
+  typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar; 
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost,
+    
+    RowsAtCompileTime = traits<XprType>::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    ColsAtCompileTime = traits<XprType>::ColsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = traits<XprType>::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxColsAtCompileTime = traits<XprType>::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+    
+    ArgTypeIsRowMajor = (int(evaluator<ArgType>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) != 0,
+    IsRowMajor = (MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1 && MaxColsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 1
+               : (MaxColsAtCompileTime==1 && MaxRowsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 0
+               : ArgTypeIsRowMajor,
+    HasSameStorageOrderAsArgType = (IsRowMajor == ArgTypeIsRowMajor),
+    InnerSize = IsRowMajor ? int(ColsAtCompileTime) : int(RowsAtCompileTime),
+    InnerStrideAtCompileTime = HasSameStorageOrderAsArgType
+                             ? int(inner_stride_at_compile_time<ArgType>::ret)
+                             : int(outer_stride_at_compile_time<ArgType>::ret),
+    OuterStrideAtCompileTime = HasSameStorageOrderAsArgType
+                             ? int(outer_stride_at_compile_time<ArgType>::ret)
+                             : int(inner_stride_at_compile_time<ArgType>::ret),
+    MaskPacketAccessBit = (InnerSize == Dynamic || (InnerSize % packet_traits<Scalar>::size) == 0)
+                       && (InnerStrideAtCompileTime == 1)
+                        ? PacketAccessBit : 0,
+    
+    MaskAlignedBit = (InnerPanel && (OuterStrideAtCompileTime!=Dynamic) && (((OuterStrideAtCompileTime * int(sizeof(Scalar))) % EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES) == 0)) ? AlignedBit : 0,
+    FlagsLinearAccessBit = (RowsAtCompileTime == 1 || ColsAtCompileTime == 1 || (InnerPanel && (evaluator<ArgType>::Flags&LinearAccessBit))) ? LinearAccessBit : 0,    
+    FlagsRowMajorBit = XprType::Flags&RowMajorBit,
+    Flags0 = evaluator<ArgType>::Flags & ( (HereditaryBits & ~RowMajorBit) |
+                                           DirectAccessBit |
+                                           MaskPacketAccessBit |
+                                           MaskAlignedBit),
+    Flags = Flags0 | FlagsLinearAccessBit | FlagsRowMajorBit
+  };
   typedef block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> block_evaluator_type;
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& block) : block_evaluator_type(block) {}
+  evaluator(const XprType& block) : block_evaluator_type(block) {}
 };
 
+// no direct-access => dispatch to a unary evaluator
 template<typename ArgType, int BlockRows, int BlockCols, bool InnerPanel>
 struct block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel, /*HasDirectAccess*/ false>
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> >
+  : unary_evaluator<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> >
 {
   typedef Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> XprType;
 
   block_evaluator(const XprType& block) 
+    : unary_evaluator<XprType>(block) 
+  {}
+};
+
+template<typename ArgType, int BlockRows, int BlockCols, bool InnerPanel>
+struct unary_evaluator<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel>, IndexBased>
+  : evaluator_base<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> >
+{
+  typedef Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> XprType;
+
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& block) 
     : m_argImpl(block.nestedExpression()), 
       m_startRow(block.startRow()), 
       m_startCol(block.startCol()) 
@@ -696,8 +775,7 @@ struct block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel, /*HasDirectAcc
   
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const 
   { 
-    return coeff(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-		 RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
+    return coeff(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index, RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
   }
 
   Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col) 
@@ -707,8 +785,7 @@ struct block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel, /*HasDirectAcc
   
   Scalar& coeffRef(Index index) 
   { 
-    return coeffRef(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-		    RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
+    return coeffRef(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index, RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
   }
  
   template<int LoadMode> 
@@ -721,7 +798,7 @@ struct block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel, /*HasDirectAcc
   PacketReturnType packet(Index index) const 
   { 
     return packet<LoadMode>(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-			    RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
+                            RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0);
   }
   
   template<int StoreMode> 
@@ -734,8 +811,8 @@ struct block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel, /*HasDirectAcc
   void writePacket(Index index, const PacketScalar& x) 
   { 
     return writePacket<StoreMode>(RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index,
-				  RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0,
-				  x);
+                                  RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0,
+                                  x);
   }
  
 protected:
@@ -749,24 +826,38 @@ protected:
 
 template<typename ArgType, int BlockRows, int BlockCols, bool InnerPanel> 
 struct block_evaluator<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel, /* HasDirectAccess */ true>
-  : evaluator_impl<MapBase<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> > >
+  : mapbase_evaluator<Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel>,
+                      typename Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel>::PlainObject>
 {
   typedef Block<ArgType, BlockRows, BlockCols, InnerPanel> XprType;
 
   block_evaluator(const XprType& block) 
-    : evaluator_impl<MapBase<XprType> >(block) 
-  { }
+    : mapbase_evaluator<XprType, typename XprType::PlainObject>(block) 
+  {
+    // FIXME this should be an internal assertion
+    eigen_assert(EIGEN_IMPLIES(evaluator<XprType>::Flags&AlignedBit, (size_t(block.data()) % EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES) == 0) && "data is not aligned");
+  }
 };
 
 
 // -------------------- Select --------------------
+// TODO shall we introduce a ternary_evaluator?
 
+// TODO enable vectorization for Select
 template<typename ConditionMatrixType, typename ThenMatrixType, typename ElseMatrixType>
-struct evaluator_impl<Select<ConditionMatrixType, ThenMatrixType, ElseMatrixType> >
+struct evaluator<Select<ConditionMatrixType, ThenMatrixType, ElseMatrixType> >
+  : evaluator_base<Select<ConditionMatrixType, ThenMatrixType, ElseMatrixType> >
 {
   typedef Select<ConditionMatrixType, ThenMatrixType, ElseMatrixType> XprType;
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ConditionMatrixType>::CoeffReadCost
+                  + EIGEN_SIZE_MAX(evaluator<ThenMatrixType>::CoeffReadCost,
+                                   evaluator<ElseMatrixType>::CoeffReadCost),
+
+    Flags = (unsigned int)evaluator<ThenMatrixType>::Flags & evaluator<ElseMatrixType>::Flags & HereditaryBits
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& select) 
+  evaluator(const XprType& select) 
     : m_conditionImpl(select.conditionMatrix()),
       m_thenImpl(select.thenMatrix()),
       m_elseImpl(select.elseMatrix())
@@ -801,20 +892,32 @@ protected:
 // -------------------- Replicate --------------------
 
 template<typename ArgType, int RowFactor, int ColFactor> 
-struct evaluator_impl<Replicate<ArgType, RowFactor, ColFactor> >
+struct unary_evaluator<Replicate<ArgType, RowFactor, ColFactor> >
+  : evaluator_base<Replicate<ArgType, RowFactor, ColFactor> >
 {
   typedef Replicate<ArgType, RowFactor, ColFactor> XprType;
-
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& replicate) 
-    : m_argImpl(replicate.nestedExpression()),
-      m_rows(replicate.nestedExpression().rows()),
-      m_cols(replicate.nestedExpression().cols())
-  { }
- 
   typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
   typedef typename XprType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
   typedef typename XprType::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
+  enum {
+    Factor = (RowFactor==Dynamic || ColFactor==Dynamic) ? Dynamic : RowFactor*ColFactor
+  };
+  typedef typename internal::nested_eval<ArgType,Factor>::type ArgTypeNested;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<ArgTypeNested>::type ArgTypeNestedCleaned;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgTypeNestedCleaned>::CoeffReadCost,
+    
+    Flags = (evaluator<ArgTypeNestedCleaned>::Flags & HereditaryBits & ~RowMajorBit) | (traits<XprType>::Flags & RowMajorBit)
+  };
 
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& replicate) 
+    : m_arg(replicate.nestedExpression()),
+      m_argImpl(m_arg),
+      m_rows(replicate.nestedExpression().rows()),
+      m_cols(replicate.nestedExpression().cols())
+  {}
+ 
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
   {
     // try to avoid using modulo; this is a pure optimization strategy
@@ -842,9 +945,10 @@ struct evaluator_impl<Replicate<ArgType, RowFactor, ColFactor> >
   }
  
 protected:
-  typename evaluator<ArgType>::nestedType m_argImpl;
-  const variable_if_dynamic<Index, XprType::RowsAtCompileTime> m_rows;
-  const variable_if_dynamic<Index, XprType::ColsAtCompileTime> m_cols;
+  const ArgTypeNested m_arg; // FIXME is it OK to store both the argument and its evaluator?? (we have the same situation in evaluator_product)
+  typename evaluator<ArgTypeNestedCleaned>::nestedType m_argImpl;
+  const variable_if_dynamic<Index, ArgType::RowsAtCompileTime> m_rows;
+  const variable_if_dynamic<Index, ArgType::ColsAtCompileTime> m_cols;
 };
 
 
@@ -855,13 +959,25 @@ protected:
 //       the row() and col() member functions.
 
 template< typename ArgType, typename MemberOp, int Direction>
-struct evaluator_impl<PartialReduxExpr<ArgType, MemberOp, Direction> >
+struct evaluator<PartialReduxExpr<ArgType, MemberOp, Direction> >
+  : evaluator_base<PartialReduxExpr<ArgType, MemberOp, Direction> >
 {
   typedef PartialReduxExpr<ArgType, MemberOp, Direction> XprType;
+  typedef typename XprType::Scalar InputScalar;
+  enum {
+    TraversalSize = Direction==int(Vertical) ? int(ArgType::RowsAtCompileTime) :  int(XprType::ColsAtCompileTime)
+  };
+  typedef typename MemberOp::template Cost<InputScalar,int(TraversalSize)> CostOpType;
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = TraversalSize==Dynamic ? Dynamic
+                  : TraversalSize * evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost + int(CostOpType::value),
+    
+    Flags = (traits<XprType>::Flags&RowMajorBit) | (evaluator<ArgType>::Flags&HereditaryBits)
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType expr)
+  evaluator(const XprType expr)
     : m_expr(expr)
-  { }
+  {}
 
   typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
   typedef typename XprType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
@@ -883,16 +999,20 @@ protected:
 
 // -------------------- MatrixWrapper and ArrayWrapper --------------------
 //
-// evaluator_impl_wrapper_base<T> is a common base class for the
+// evaluator_wrapper_base<T> is a common base class for the
 // MatrixWrapper and ArrayWrapper evaluators.
 
 template<typename XprType>
-struct evaluator_impl_wrapper_base
-  : evaluator_impl_base<XprType>
+struct evaluator_wrapper_base
+  : evaluator_base<XprType>
 {
   typedef typename remove_all<typename XprType::NestedExpressionType>::type ArgType;
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost,
+    Flags = evaluator<ArgType>::Flags
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl_wrapper_base(const ArgType& arg) : m_argImpl(arg) {}
+  evaluator_wrapper_base(const ArgType& arg) : m_argImpl(arg) {}
 
   typedef typename ArgType::Index Index;
   typedef typename ArgType::Scalar Scalar;
@@ -949,24 +1069,24 @@ protected:
 };
 
 template<typename TArgType>
-struct evaluator_impl<MatrixWrapper<TArgType> >
-  : evaluator_impl_wrapper_base<MatrixWrapper<TArgType> >
+struct unary_evaluator<MatrixWrapper<TArgType> >
+  : evaluator_wrapper_base<MatrixWrapper<TArgType> >
 {
   typedef MatrixWrapper<TArgType> XprType;
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& wrapper) 
-    : evaluator_impl_wrapper_base<MatrixWrapper<TArgType> >(wrapper.nestedExpression())
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& wrapper) 
+    : evaluator_wrapper_base<MatrixWrapper<TArgType> >(wrapper.nestedExpression())
   { }
 };
 
 template<typename TArgType>
-struct evaluator_impl<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >
-  : evaluator_impl_wrapper_base<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >
+struct unary_evaluator<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >
+  : evaluator_wrapper_base<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >
 {
   typedef ArrayWrapper<TArgType> XprType;
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& wrapper) 
-    : evaluator_impl_wrapper_base<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >(wrapper.nestedExpression())
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& wrapper) 
+    : evaluator_wrapper_base<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >(wrapper.nestedExpression())
   { }
 };
 
@@ -977,8 +1097,8 @@ struct evaluator_impl<ArrayWrapper<TArgType> >
 template<typename PacketScalar, bool ReversePacket> struct reverse_packet_cond;
 
 template<typename ArgType, int Direction>
-struct evaluator_impl<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
+struct unary_evaluator<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
+  : evaluator_base<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
 {
   typedef Reverse<ArgType, Direction> XprType;
   typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
@@ -997,11 +1117,21 @@ struct evaluator_impl<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
     OffsetCol  = ReverseCol && IsRowMajor ? PacketSize : 1,
     ReversePacket = (Direction == BothDirections)
                     || ((Direction == Vertical)   && IsColMajor)
-                    || ((Direction == Horizontal) && IsRowMajor)
+                    || ((Direction == Horizontal) && IsRowMajor),
+                    
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost,
+    
+    // let's enable LinearAccess only with vectorization because of the product overhead
+    // FIXME enable DirectAccess with negative strides?
+    Flags0 = evaluator<ArgType>::Flags,
+    LinearAccess = ( (Direction==BothDirections) && (int(Flags0)&PacketAccessBit) )
+                 ? LinearAccessBit : 0,
+
+    Flags = int(Flags0) & (HereditaryBits | PacketAccessBit | LinearAccess)
   };
   typedef internal::reverse_packet_cond<PacketScalar,ReversePacket> reverse_packet;
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& reverse) 
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType& reverse) 
     : m_argImpl(reverse.nestedExpression()),
       m_rows(ReverseRow ? reverse.nestedExpression().rows() : 0),
       m_cols(ReverseCol ? reverse.nestedExpression().cols() : 0)
@@ -1010,7 +1140,7 @@ struct evaluator_impl<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
   {
     return m_argImpl.coeff(ReverseRow ? m_rows.value() - row - 1 : row,
-			   ReverseCol ? m_cols.value() - col - 1 : col);
+                           ReverseCol ? m_cols.value() - col - 1 : col);
   }
 
   CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const
@@ -1021,7 +1151,7 @@ struct evaluator_impl<Reverse<ArgType, Direction> >
   Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col)
   {
     return m_argImpl.coeffRef(ReverseRow ? m_rows.value() - row - 1 : row,
-			      ReverseCol ? m_cols.value() - col - 1 : col);
+                              ReverseCol ? m_cols.value() - col - 1 : col);
   }
 
   Scalar& coeffRef(Index index)
@@ -1071,12 +1201,18 @@ protected:
 // -------------------- Diagonal --------------------
 
 template<typename ArgType, int DiagIndex>
-struct evaluator_impl<Diagonal<ArgType, DiagIndex> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Diagonal<ArgType, DiagIndex> >
+struct evaluator<Diagonal<ArgType, DiagIndex> >
+  : evaluator_base<Diagonal<ArgType, DiagIndex> >
 {
   typedef Diagonal<ArgType, DiagIndex> XprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<ArgType>::CoeffReadCost,
+    
+    Flags = (unsigned int)evaluator<ArgType>::Flags & (HereditaryBits | LinearAccessBit | DirectAccessBit) & ~RowMajorBit
+  };
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& diagonal) 
+  evaluator(const XprType& diagonal) 
     : m_argImpl(diagonal.nestedExpression()),
       m_index(diagonal.index())
   { }
@@ -1114,6 +1250,86 @@ private:
   EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Index colOffset() const { return m_index.value() > 0 ? m_index.value() : 0; }
 };
 
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------
+// deprecated code
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// -------------------- EvalToTemp --------------------
+
+// expression class for evaluating nested expression to a temporary
+
+template<typename ArgType> class EvalToTemp;
+
+template<typename ArgType>
+struct traits<EvalToTemp<ArgType> >
+  : public traits<ArgType>
+{ };
+
+template<typename ArgType>
+class EvalToTemp
+  : public dense_xpr_base<EvalToTemp<ArgType> >::type
+{
+ public:
+ 
+  typedef typename dense_xpr_base<EvalToTemp>::type Base;
+  EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(EvalToTemp)
+ 
+  EvalToTemp(const ArgType& arg)
+    : m_arg(arg)
+  { }
+ 
+  const ArgType& arg() const
+  {
+    return m_arg;
+  }
+
+  Index rows() const 
+  {
+    return m_arg.rows();
+  }
+
+  Index cols() const 
+  {
+    return m_arg.cols();
+  }
+
+ private:
+  const ArgType& m_arg;
+};
+ 
+template<typename ArgType>
+struct evaluator<EvalToTemp<ArgType> >
+  : public evaluator<typename ArgType::PlainObject>::type
+{
+  typedef EvalToTemp<ArgType>                   XprType;
+  typedef typename ArgType::PlainObject         PlainObject;
+  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
+
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr) 
+    : m_result(xpr.rows(), xpr.cols())
+  {
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    // TODO we should simply do m_result(xpr.arg());
+    call_dense_assignment_loop(m_result, xpr.arg());
+  }
+
+  // This constructor is used when nesting an EvalTo evaluator in another evaluator
+  evaluator(const ArgType& arg) 
+    : m_result(arg.rows(), arg.cols())
+  {
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    // TODO we should simply do m_result(xpr.arg());
+    call_dense_assignment_loop(m_result, arg);
+  }
+
+protected:
+  PlainObject m_result;
+};
+
 } // namespace internal
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseBinaryOp.h b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseBinaryOp.h
index e20daacc8..de9109e53 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseBinaryOp.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseBinaryOp.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
 // for linear algebra.
 //
-// Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+// Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
 // Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
 //
 // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ struct traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
                        typename Rhs::Scalar
                      )
                    >::type Scalar;
-  typedef typename promote_storage_type<typename traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
-                                           typename traits<Rhs>::StorageKind>::ret StorageKind;
+  typedef typename cwise_promote_storage_type<typename traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
+                                              typename traits<Rhs>::StorageKind,
+                                              BinaryOp>::ret StorageKind;
   typedef typename promote_index_type<typename traits<Lhs>::Index,
                                          typename traits<Rhs>::Index>::type Index;
   typedef typename Lhs::Nested LhsNested;
@@ -65,60 +66,36 @@ struct traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >
   typedef typename remove_reference<LhsNested>::type _LhsNested;
   typedef typename remove_reference<RhsNested>::type _RhsNested;
   enum {
-    LhsCoeffReadCost = _LhsNested::CoeffReadCost,
-    RhsCoeffReadCost = _RhsNested::CoeffReadCost,
-    LhsFlags = _LhsNested::Flags,
-    RhsFlags = _RhsNested::Flags,
-    SameType = is_same<typename _LhsNested::Scalar,typename _RhsNested::Scalar>::value,
-    StorageOrdersAgree = (int(Lhs::Flags)&RowMajorBit)==(int(Rhs::Flags)&RowMajorBit),
-    Flags0 = (int(LhsFlags) | int(RhsFlags)) & (
-        HereditaryBits
-      | (int(LhsFlags) & int(RhsFlags) &
-           ( AlignedBit
-           | (StorageOrdersAgree ? LinearAccessBit : 0)
-           | (functor_traits<BinaryOp>::PacketAccess && StorageOrdersAgree && SameType ? PacketAccessBit : 0)
-           )
-        )
-     ),
-    Flags = (Flags0 & ~RowMajorBit) | (LhsFlags & RowMajorBit),
-    CoeffReadCost = LhsCoeffReadCost + RhsCoeffReadCost + functor_traits<BinaryOp>::Cost
+    Flags = _LhsNested::Flags & RowMajorBit
   };
 };
 } // end namespace internal
 
-// we require Lhs and Rhs to have the same scalar type. Currently there is no example of a binary functor
-// that would take two operands of different types. If there were such an example, then this check should be
-// moved to the BinaryOp functors, on a per-case basis. This would however require a change in the BinaryOp functors, as
-// currently they take only one typename Scalar template parameter.
-// It is tempting to always allow mixing different types but remember that this is often impossible in the vectorized paths.
-// So allowing mixing different types gives very unexpected errors when enabling vectorization, when the user tries to
-// add together a float matrix and a double matrix.
-#define EIGEN_CHECK_BINARY_COMPATIBILIY(BINOP,LHS,RHS) \
-  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((internal::functor_is_product_like<BINOP>::ret \
-                        ? int(internal::scalar_product_traits<LHS, RHS>::Defined) \
-                        : int(internal::is_same<LHS, RHS>::value)), \
-    YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
-
 template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename StorageKind>
 class CwiseBinaryOpImpl;
 
-template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+template<typename BinaryOp, typename LhsType, typename RhsType>
 class CwiseBinaryOp : internal::no_assignment_operator,
   public CwiseBinaryOpImpl<
-          BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs,
-          typename internal::promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
-                                           typename internal::traits<Rhs>::StorageKind>::ret>
+          BinaryOp, LhsType, RhsType,
+          typename internal::cwise_promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<LhsType>::StorageKind,
+                                                        typename internal::traits<RhsType>::StorageKind,
+                                                        BinaryOp>::ret>
 {
   public:
+    
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<LhsType>::type Lhs;
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<RhsType>::type Rhs;
 
     typedef typename CwiseBinaryOpImpl<
-        BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs,
-        typename internal::promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
-                                         typename internal::traits<Rhs>::StorageKind>::ret>::Base Base;
+        BinaryOp, LhsType, RhsType,
+        typename internal::cwise_promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<LhsType>::StorageKind,
+                                                      typename internal::traits<Rhs>::StorageKind,
+                                                      BinaryOp>::ret>::Base Base;
     EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(CwiseBinaryOp)
 
-    typedef typename internal::nested<Lhs>::type LhsNested;
-    typedef typename internal::nested<Rhs>::type RhsNested;
+    typedef typename internal::nested<LhsType>::type LhsNested;
+    typedef typename internal::nested<RhsType>::type RhsNested;
     typedef typename internal::remove_reference<LhsNested>::type _LhsNested;
     typedef typename internal::remove_reference<RhsNested>::type _RhsNested;
 
@@ -165,43 +142,13 @@ class CwiseBinaryOp : internal::no_assignment_operator,
     const BinaryOp m_functor;
 };
 
-template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class CwiseBinaryOpImpl<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs, Dense>
-  : public internal::dense_xpr_base<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >::type
+// Generic API dispatcher
+template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename StorageKind>
+class CwiseBinaryOpImpl
+  : public internal::generic_xpr_base<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >::type
 {
-    typedef CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> Derived;
-  public:
-
-    typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >::type Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE( Derived )
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(derived().lhs().coeff(rowId, colId),
-                                 derived().rhs().coeff(rowId, colId));
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor().packetOp(derived().lhs().template packet<LoadMode>(rowId, colId),
-                                          derived().rhs().template packet<LoadMode>(rowId, colId));
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(derived().lhs().coeff(index),
-                                 derived().rhs().coeff(index));
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor().packetOp(derived().lhs().template packet<LoadMode>(index),
-                                          derived().rhs().template packet<LoadMode>(index));
-    }
+public:
+  typedef typename internal::generic_xpr_base<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >::type Base;
 };
 
 /** replaces \c *this by \c *this - \a other.
@@ -213,8 +160,7 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived &
 MatrixBase<Derived>::operator-=(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other)
 {
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_difference_op<Scalar>, Derived, OtherDerived> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = other.derived();
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -227,8 +173,7 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived &
 MatrixBase<Derived>::operator+=(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>, Derived, OtherDerived> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = other.derived();
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseNullaryOp.h b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseNullaryOp.h
index 124383114..8b8397da6 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseNullaryOp.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseNullaryOp.h
@@ -35,12 +35,7 @@ template<typename NullaryOp, typename PlainObjectType>
 struct traits<CwiseNullaryOp<NullaryOp, PlainObjectType> > : traits<PlainObjectType>
 {
   enum {
-    Flags = (traits<PlainObjectType>::Flags
-      & (  HereditaryBits
-         | (functor_has_linear_access<NullaryOp>::ret ? LinearAccessBit : 0)
-         | (functor_traits<NullaryOp>::PacketAccess ? PacketAccessBit : 0)))
-      | (functor_traits<NullaryOp>::IsRepeatable ? 0 : EvalBeforeNestingBit),
-    CoeffReadCost = functor_traits<NullaryOp>::Cost
+    Flags = traits<PlainObjectType>::Flags & RowMajorBit
   };
 };
 }
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryOp.h b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryOp.h
index aa7df197f..79a872934 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryOp.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryOp.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
 // for linear algebra.
 //
-// Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+// Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
 // Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
 //
 // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
@@ -44,10 +44,7 @@ struct traits<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, XprType> >
   typedef typename XprType::Nested XprTypeNested;
   typedef typename remove_reference<XprTypeNested>::type _XprTypeNested;
   enum {
-    Flags = _XprTypeNested::Flags & (
-      HereditaryBits | LinearAccessBit | AlignedBit
-      | (functor_traits<UnaryOp>::PacketAccess ? PacketAccessBit : 0)),
-    CoeffReadCost = _XprTypeNested::CoeffReadCost + functor_traits<UnaryOp>::Cost
+    Flags = _XprTypeNested::Flags & RowMajorBit 
   };
 };
 }
@@ -63,6 +60,7 @@ class CwiseUnaryOp : internal::no_assignment_operator,
 
     typedef typename CwiseUnaryOpImpl<UnaryOp, XprType,typename internal::traits<XprType>::StorageKind>::Base Base;
     EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(CwiseUnaryOp)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<XprType>::type NestedExpression;
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline CwiseUnaryOp(const XprType& xpr, const UnaryOp& func = UnaryOp())
@@ -92,42 +90,13 @@ class CwiseUnaryOp : internal::no_assignment_operator,
     const UnaryOp m_functor;
 };
 
-// This is the generic implementation for dense storage.
-// It can be used for any expression types implementing the dense concept.
-template<typename UnaryOp, typename XprType>
-class CwiseUnaryOpImpl<UnaryOp,XprType,Dense>
-  : public internal::dense_xpr_base<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, XprType> >::type
+// Generic API dispatcher
+template<typename UnaryOp, typename XprType, typename StorageKind>
+class CwiseUnaryOpImpl
+  : public internal::generic_xpr_base<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, XprType> >::type
 {
-  public:
-
-    typedef CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, XprType> Derived;
-    typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, XprType> >::type Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived)
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(derived().nestedExpression().coeff(rowId, colId));
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor().packetOp(derived().nestedExpression().template packet<LoadMode>(rowId, colId));
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(derived().nestedExpression().coeff(index));
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor().packetOp(derived().nestedExpression().template packet<LoadMode>(index));
-    }
+public:
+  typedef typename internal::generic_xpr_base<CwiseUnaryOp<UnaryOp, XprType> >::type Base;
 };
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryView.h b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryView.h
index b2638d326..71249a39c 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryView.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/CwiseUnaryView.h
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ struct traits<CwiseUnaryView<ViewOp, MatrixType> >
   typedef typename MatrixType::Nested MatrixTypeNested;
   typedef typename remove_all<MatrixTypeNested>::type _MatrixTypeNested;
   enum {
-    Flags = (traits<_MatrixTypeNested>::Flags & (HereditaryBits | LvalueBit | LinearAccessBit | DirectAccessBit)),
-    CoeffReadCost = traits<_MatrixTypeNested>::CoeffReadCost + functor_traits<ViewOp>::Cost,
+    Flags = traits<_MatrixTypeNested>::Flags & (RowMajorBit | LvalueBit | DirectAccessBit), // FIXME DirectAccessBit should not be handled by expressions
     MatrixTypeInnerStride =  inner_stride_at_compile_time<MatrixType>::ret,
     // need to cast the sizeof's from size_t to int explicitly, otherwise:
     // "error: no integral type can represent all of the enumerator values
@@ -62,6 +61,7 @@ class CwiseUnaryView : public CwiseUnaryViewImpl<ViewOp, MatrixType, typename in
 
     typedef typename CwiseUnaryViewImpl<ViewOp, MatrixType,typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::StorageKind>::Base Base;
     EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(CwiseUnaryView)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<MatrixType>::type NestedExpression;
 
     inline CwiseUnaryView(const MatrixType& mat, const ViewOp& func = ViewOp())
       : m_matrix(mat), m_functor(func) {}
@@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ class CwiseUnaryView : public CwiseUnaryViewImpl<ViewOp, MatrixType, typename in
     ViewOp m_functor;
 };
 
+// Generic API dispatcher
+template<typename ViewOp, typename XprType, typename StorageKind>
+class CwiseUnaryViewImpl
+  : public internal::generic_xpr_base<CwiseUnaryView<ViewOp, XprType> >::type
+{
+public:
+  typedef typename internal::generic_xpr_base<CwiseUnaryView<ViewOp, XprType> >::type Base;
+};
+
 template<typename ViewOp, typename MatrixType>
 class CwiseUnaryViewImpl<ViewOp,MatrixType,Dense>
   : public internal::dense_xpr_base< CwiseUnaryView<ViewOp, MatrixType> >::type
@@ -100,8 +109,8 @@ class CwiseUnaryViewImpl<ViewOp,MatrixType,Dense>
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived)
     EIGEN_INHERIT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATORS(CwiseUnaryViewImpl)
     
-    inline Scalar* data() { return &coeffRef(0); }
-    inline const Scalar* data() const { return &coeff(0); }
+    inline Scalar* data() { return &(this->coeffRef(0)); }
+    inline const Scalar* data() const { return &(this->coeff(0)); }
 
     inline Index innerStride() const
     {
@@ -112,26 +121,6 @@ class CwiseUnaryViewImpl<ViewOp,MatrixType,Dense>
     {
       return derived().nestedExpression().outerStride() * sizeof(typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::Scalar) / sizeof(Scalar);
     }
-
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(derived().nestedExpression().coeff(row, col));
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(derived().nestedExpression().coeff(index));
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col)
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(const_cast_derived().nestedExpression().coeffRef(row, col));
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar& coeffRef(Index index)
-    {
-      return derived().functor()(const_cast_derived().nestedExpression().coeffRef(index));
-    }
 };
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h
index bd5dd14ed..6078af553 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h
@@ -74,16 +74,6 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     using Base::colIndexByOuterInner;
     using Base::coeff;
     using Base::coeffByOuterInner;
-    using Base::packet;
-    using Base::packetByOuterInner;
-    using Base::writePacket;
-    using Base::writePacketByOuterInner;
-    using Base::coeffRef;
-    using Base::coeffRefByOuterInner;
-    using Base::copyCoeff;
-    using Base::copyCoeffByOuterInner;
-    using Base::copyPacket;
-    using Base::copyPacketByOuterInner;
     using Base::operator();
     using Base::operator[];
     using Base::x;
@@ -169,11 +159,6 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
       InnerSizeAtCompileTime = int(IsVectorAtCompileTime) ? int(SizeAtCompileTime)
                              : int(IsRowMajor) ? int(ColsAtCompileTime) : int(RowsAtCompileTime),
 
-      CoeffReadCost = internal::traits<Derived>::CoeffReadCost,
-        /**< This is a rough measure of how expensive it is to read one coefficient from
-          * this expression.
-          */
-
       InnerStrideAtCompileTime = internal::inner_stride_at_compile_time<Derived>::ret,
       OuterStrideAtCompileTime = internal::outer_stride_at_compile_time<Derived>::ret
     };
@@ -278,7 +263,8 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     Derived& operator=(const ReturnByValue<OtherDerived>& func);
 
 #ifndef EIGEN_PARSED_BY_DOXYGEN
-    /** Copies \a other into *this without evaluating other. \returns a reference to *this. */
+    /** Copies \a other into *this without evaluating other. \returns a reference to *this.
+      * \deprecated */
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     Derived& lazyAssign(const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other);
@@ -287,8 +273,10 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     CommaInitializer<Derived> operator<< (const Scalar& s);
 
+    // TODO flagged is temporarly disabled. It seems useless now
     template<unsigned int Added,unsigned int Removed>
-    const Flagged<Derived, Added, Removed> flagged() const;
+    const Derived& flagged() const
+    { return derived(); }
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -301,13 +289,6 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     ConstTransposeReturnType transpose() const;
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void transposeInPlace();
-#ifndef EIGEN_NO_DEBUG
-  protected:
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    void checkTransposeAliasing(const OtherDerived& other) const;
-  public:
-#endif
-
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC static const ConstantReturnType
     Constant(Index rows, Index cols, const Scalar& value);
@@ -387,7 +368,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
       // size types on MSVC.
       return typename internal::eval<Derived>::type(derived());
     }
-
+    
     /** swaps *this with the expression \a other.
       *
       */
@@ -396,7 +377,8 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     void swap(const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other,
               int = OtherDerived::ThisConstantIsPrivateInPlainObjectBase)
     {
-      SwapWrapper<Derived>(derived()).lazyAssign(other.derived());
+      eigen_assert(rows()==other.rows() && cols()==other.cols());
+      call_assignment(derived(), other.const_cast_derived(), internal::swap_assign_op<Scalar>());
     }
 
     /** swaps *this with the matrix or array \a other.
@@ -406,10 +388,10 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void swap(PlainObjectBase<OtherDerived>& other)
     {
-      SwapWrapper<Derived>(derived()).lazyAssign(other.derived());
+      eigen_assert(rows()==other.rows() && cols()==other.cols());
+      call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::swap_assign_op<Scalar>());
     }
 
-
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline const NestByValue<Derived> nestByValue() const;
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline const ForceAlignedAccess<Derived> forceAlignedAccess() const;
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline ForceAlignedAccess<Derived> forceAlignedAccess();
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/DenseCoeffsBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/DenseCoeffsBase.h
index 4e986e875..a9e4dbaf9 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/DenseCoeffsBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/DenseCoeffsBase.h
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
     {
       eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                        && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      return derived().coeff(row, col);
+                         && col >= 0 && col < cols());
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).coeff(row,col);
     }
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
     {
       eigen_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
           && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      return derived().coeff(row, col);
+      return coeff(row, col);
     }
 
     /** Short version: don't use this function, use
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
     coeff(Index index) const
     {
       eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().coeff(index);
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).coeff(index);
     }
 
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
       EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime,
                           THE_BRACKET_OPERATOR_IS_ONLY_FOR_VECTORS__USE_THE_PARENTHESIS_OPERATOR_INSTEAD)
       eigen_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().coeff(index);
+      return coeff(index);
     }
 
     /** \returns the coefficient at given index.
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
     operator()(Index index) const
     {
       eigen_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().coeff(index);
+      return coeff(index);
     }
 
     /** equivalent to operator[](0).  */
@@ -217,9 +217,8 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
     template<int LoadMode>
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketReturnType packet(Index row, Index col) const
     {
-      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                      && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      return derived().template packet<LoadMode>(row,col);
+      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows() && col >= 0 && col < cols());
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).template packet<LoadMode>(row,col);
     }
 
 
@@ -245,7 +244,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,ReadOnlyAccessors> : public EigenBase<Derived>
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketReturnType packet(Index index) const
     {
       eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().template packet<LoadMode>(index);
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).template packet<LoadMode>(index);
     }
 
   protected:
@@ -325,8 +324,8 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived, WriteAccessors> : public DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col)
     {
       eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                        && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      return derived().coeffRef(row, col);
+                         && col >= 0 && col < cols());
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).coeffRef(row,col);
     }
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -348,7 +347,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived, WriteAccessors> : public DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,
     {
       eigen_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
           && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      return derived().coeffRef(row, col);
+      return coeffRef(row, col);
     }
 
 
@@ -372,7 +371,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived, WriteAccessors> : public DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,
     coeffRef(Index index)
     {
       eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().coeffRef(index);
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).coeffRef(index);
     }
 
     /** \returns a reference to the coefficient at given index.
@@ -389,7 +388,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived, WriteAccessors> : public DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,
       EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime,
                           THE_BRACKET_OPERATOR_IS_ONLY_FOR_VECTORS__USE_THE_PARENTHESIS_OPERATOR_INSTEAD)
       eigen_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().coeffRef(index);
+      return coeffRef(index);
     }
 
     /** \returns a reference to the coefficient at given index.
@@ -406,7 +405,7 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived, WriteAccessors> : public DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,
     operator()(Index index)
     {
       eigen_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      return derived().coeffRef(index);
+      return coeffRef(index);
     }
 
     /** equivalent to operator[](0).  */
@@ -432,144 +431,6 @@ class DenseCoeffsBase<Derived, WriteAccessors> : public DenseCoeffsBase<Derived,
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar&
     w() { return (*this)[3]; }
-
-    /** \internal
-      * Stores the given packet of coefficients, at the given row and column of this expression. It is your responsibility
-      * to ensure that a packet really starts there. This method is only available on expressions having the
-      * PacketAccessBit.
-      *
-      * The \a LoadMode parameter may have the value \a #Aligned or \a #Unaligned. Its effect is to select
-      * the appropriate vectorization instruction. Aligned access is faster, but is only possible for packets
-      * starting at an address which is a multiple of the packet size.
-      */
-
-    template<int StoreMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void writePacket
-    (Index row, Index col, const typename internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::type& val)
-    {
-      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                        && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      derived().template writePacket<StoreMode>(row,col,val);
-    }
-
-
-    /** \internal */
-    template<int StoreMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void writePacketByOuterInner
-    (Index outer, Index inner, const typename internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::type& val)
-    {
-      writePacket<StoreMode>(rowIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner),
-                            colIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner),
-                            val);
-    }
-
-    /** \internal
-      * Stores the given packet of coefficients, at the given index in this expression. It is your responsibility
-      * to ensure that a packet really starts there. This method is only available on expressions having the
-      * PacketAccessBit and the LinearAccessBit.
-      *
-      * The \a LoadMode parameter may have the value \a Aligned or \a Unaligned. Its effect is to select
-      * the appropriate vectorization instruction. Aligned access is faster, but is only possible for packets
-      * starting at an address which is a multiple of the packet size.
-      */
-    template<int StoreMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void writePacket
-    (Index index, const typename internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::type& val)
-    {
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      derived().template writePacket<StoreMode>(index,val);
-    }
-
-#ifndef EIGEN_PARSED_BY_DOXYGEN
-
-    /** \internal Copies the coefficient at position (row,col) of other into *this.
-      *
-      * This method is overridden in SwapWrapper, allowing swap() assignments to share 99% of their code
-      * with usual assignments.
-      *
-      * Outside of this internal usage, this method has probably no usefulness. It is hidden in the public API dox.
-      */
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void copyCoeff(Index row, Index col, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                        && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      derived().coeffRef(row, col) = other.derived().coeff(row, col);
-    }
-
-    /** \internal Copies the coefficient at the given index of other into *this.
-      *
-      * This method is overridden in SwapWrapper, allowing swap() assignments to share 99% of their code
-      * with usual assignments.
-      *
-      * Outside of this internal usage, this method has probably no usefulness. It is hidden in the public API dox.
-      */
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void copyCoeff(Index index, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      derived().coeffRef(index) = other.derived().coeff(index);
-    }
-
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void copyCoeffByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      const Index row = rowIndexByOuterInner(outer,inner);
-      const Index col = colIndexByOuterInner(outer,inner);
-      // derived() is important here: copyCoeff() may be reimplemented in Derived!
-      derived().copyCoeff(row, col, other);
-    }
-
-    /** \internal Copies the packet at position (row,col) of other into *this.
-      *
-      * This method is overridden in SwapWrapper, allowing swap() assignments to share 99% of their code
-      * with usual assignments.
-      *
-      * Outside of this internal usage, this method has probably no usefulness. It is hidden in the public API dox.
-      */
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void copyPacket(Index row, Index col, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                        && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      derived().template writePacket<StoreMode>(row, col,
-        other.derived().template packet<LoadMode>(row, col));
-    }
-
-    /** \internal Copies the packet at the given index of other into *this.
-      *
-      * This method is overridden in SwapWrapper, allowing swap() assignments to share 99% of their code
-      * with usual assignments.
-      *
-      * Outside of this internal usage, this method has probably no usefulness. It is hidden in the public API dox.
-      */
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void copyPacket(Index index, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < size());
-      derived().template writePacket<StoreMode>(index,
-        other.derived().template packet<LoadMode>(index));
-    }
-
-    /** \internal */
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void copyPacketByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      const Index row = rowIndexByOuterInner(outer,inner);
-      const Index col = colIndexByOuterInner(outer,inner);
-      // derived() is important here: copyCoeff() may be reimplemented in Derived!
-      derived().template copyPacket< OtherDerived, StoreMode, LoadMode>(row, col, other);
-    }
-#endif
-
 };
 
 /** \brief Base class providing direct read-only coefficient access to matrices and arrays.
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Diagonal.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Diagonal.h
index b160479ab..1ffcd97f9 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Diagonal.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Diagonal.h
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ struct traits<Diagonal<MatrixType,DiagIndex> >
                                                  MatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime - EIGEN_PLAIN_ENUM_MAX( DiagIndex, 0))),
     MaxColsAtCompileTime = 1,
     MaskLvalueBit = is_lvalue<MatrixType>::value ? LvalueBit : 0,
-    Flags = (unsigned int)_MatrixTypeNested::Flags & (HereditaryBits | LinearAccessBit | MaskLvalueBit | DirectAccessBit) & ~RowMajorBit,
-    CoeffReadCost = _MatrixTypeNested::CoeffReadCost,
+    Flags = (unsigned int)_MatrixTypeNested::Flags & (RowMajorBit | MaskLvalueBit | DirectAccessBit) & ~RowMajorBit, // FIXME DirectAccessBit should not be handled by expressions
     MatrixTypeOuterStride = outer_stride_at_compile_time<MatrixType>::ret,
     InnerStrideAtCompileTime = MatrixTypeOuterStride == Dynamic ? Dynamic : MatrixTypeOuterStride+1,
     OuterStrideAtCompileTime = 0
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalMatrix.h
index 96b65483d..44c249aa6 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalMatrix.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class DiagonalBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
       MaxRowsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,
       MaxColsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,
       IsVectorAtCompileTime = 0,
-      Flags = 0
+      Flags = NoPreferredStorageOrderBit
     };
 
     typedef Matrix<Scalar, RowsAtCompileTime, ColsAtCompileTime, 0, MaxRowsAtCompileTime, MaxColsAtCompileTime> DenseMatrixType;
@@ -44,18 +44,7 @@ class DiagonalBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     DenseMatrixType toDenseMatrix() const { return derived(); }
-    template<typename DenseDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void evalTo(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const;
-    template<typename DenseDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void addTo(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const
-    { other.diagonal() += diagonal(); }
-    template<typename DenseDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void subTo(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const
-    { other.diagonal() -= diagonal(); }
-
+    
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline const DiagonalVectorType& diagonal() const { return derived().diagonal(); }
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -66,14 +55,12 @@ class DiagonalBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline Index cols() const { return diagonal().size(); }
 
-    /** \returns the diagonal matrix product of \c *this by the matrix \a matrix.
-      */
     template<typename MatrixDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const DiagonalProduct<MatrixDerived, Derived, OnTheLeft>
+    const Product<Derived,MatrixDerived,LazyProduct>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<MatrixDerived> &matrix) const
     {
-      return DiagonalProduct<MatrixDerived, Derived, OnTheLeft>(matrix.derived(), derived());
+      return Product<Derived, MatrixDerived, LazyProduct>(derived(),matrix.derived());
     }
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -97,13 +84,6 @@ class DiagonalBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
     }
 };
 
-template<typename Derived>
-template<typename DenseDerived>
-void DiagonalBase<Derived>::evalTo(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const
-{
-  other.setZero();
-  other.diagonal() = diagonal();
-}
 #endif
 
 /** \class DiagonalMatrix
@@ -125,10 +105,10 @@ struct traits<DiagonalMatrix<_Scalar,SizeAtCompileTime,MaxSizeAtCompileTime> >
  : traits<Matrix<_Scalar,SizeAtCompileTime,SizeAtCompileTime,0,MaxSizeAtCompileTime,MaxSizeAtCompileTime> >
 {
   typedef Matrix<_Scalar,SizeAtCompileTime,1,0,MaxSizeAtCompileTime,1> DiagonalVectorType;
-  typedef Dense StorageKind;
+  typedef DiagonalShape StorageKind;
   typedef DenseIndex Index;
   enum {
-    Flags = LvalueBit
+    Flags = LvalueBit | NoPreferredStorageOrderBit
   };
 };
 }
@@ -249,13 +229,14 @@ struct traits<DiagonalWrapper<_DiagonalVectorType> >
   typedef _DiagonalVectorType DiagonalVectorType;
   typedef typename DiagonalVectorType::Scalar Scalar;
   typedef typename DiagonalVectorType::Index Index;
-  typedef typename DiagonalVectorType::StorageKind StorageKind;
+  typedef DiagonalShape StorageKind;
+  typedef typename traits<DiagonalVectorType>::XprKind XprKind;
   enum {
     RowsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::SizeAtCompileTime,
     ColsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::SizeAtCompileTime,
-    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::SizeAtCompileTime,
-    MaxColsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::SizeAtCompileTime,
-    Flags =  traits<DiagonalVectorType>::Flags & LvalueBit
+    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,
+    MaxColsAtCompileTime = DiagonalVectorType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,
+    Flags =  (traits<DiagonalVectorType>::Flags & LvalueBit) | NoPreferredStorageOrderBit
   };
 };
 }
@@ -326,6 +307,27 @@ bool MatrixBase<Derived>::isDiagonal(const RealScalar& prec) const
   return true;
 }
 
+namespace internal {
+
+template<> struct storage_kind_to_shape<DiagonalShape> { typedef DiagonalShape Shape; };
+
+struct Diagonal2Dense {};
+
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<DenseShape,DiagonalShape> { typedef Diagonal2Dense Kind; };
+
+// Diagonal matrix to Dense assignment
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, SrcXprType, Functor, Diagonal2Dense, Scalar>
+{
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::assign_op<typename DstXprType::Scalar> &/*func*/)
+  {
+    dst.setZero();
+    dst.diagonal() = src.diagonal();
+  }
+};
+
+} // namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_DIAGONALMATRIX_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalProduct.h b/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalProduct.h
index c03a0c2e1..d372b938f 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalProduct.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/DiagonalProduct.h
@@ -13,116 +13,14 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-namespace internal {
-template<typename MatrixType, typename DiagonalType, int ProductOrder>
-struct traits<DiagonalProduct<MatrixType, DiagonalType, ProductOrder> >
- : traits<MatrixType>
-{
-  typedef typename scalar_product_traits<typename MatrixType::Scalar, typename DiagonalType::Scalar>::ReturnType Scalar;
-  enum {
-    RowsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    ColsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxColsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-
-    _StorageOrder = MatrixType::Flags & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
-    _ScalarAccessOnDiag =  !((int(_StorageOrder) == ColMajor && int(ProductOrder) == OnTheLeft)
-                          ||(int(_StorageOrder) == RowMajor && int(ProductOrder) == OnTheRight)),
-    _SameTypes = is_same<typename MatrixType::Scalar, typename DiagonalType::Scalar>::value,
-    // FIXME currently we need same types, but in the future the next rule should be the one
-    //_Vectorizable = bool(int(MatrixType::Flags)&PacketAccessBit) && ((!_PacketOnDiag) || (_SameTypes && bool(int(DiagonalType::DiagonalVectorType::Flags)&PacketAccessBit))),
-    _Vectorizable = bool(int(MatrixType::Flags)&PacketAccessBit) && _SameTypes && (_ScalarAccessOnDiag || (bool(int(DiagonalType::DiagonalVectorType::Flags)&PacketAccessBit))),
-    _LinearAccessMask = (RowsAtCompileTime==1 || ColsAtCompileTime==1) ? LinearAccessBit : 0,
-
-    Flags = ((HereditaryBits|_LinearAccessMask) & (unsigned int)(MatrixType::Flags)) | (_Vectorizable ? PacketAccessBit : 0) | AlignedBit,//(int(MatrixType::Flags)&int(DiagonalType::DiagonalVectorType::Flags)&AlignedBit),
-    CoeffReadCost = NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost + MatrixType::CoeffReadCost + DiagonalType::DiagonalVectorType::CoeffReadCost
-  };
-};
-}
-
-template<typename MatrixType, typename DiagonalType, int ProductOrder>
-class DiagonalProduct : internal::no_assignment_operator,
-                        public MatrixBase<DiagonalProduct<MatrixType, DiagonalType, ProductOrder> >
-{
-  public:
-
-    typedef MatrixBase<DiagonalProduct> Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(DiagonalProduct)
-
-    inline DiagonalProduct(const MatrixType& matrix, const DiagonalType& diagonal)
-      : m_matrix(matrix), m_diagonal(diagonal)
-    {
-      eigen_assert(diagonal.diagonal().size() == (ProductOrder == OnTheLeft ? matrix.rows() : matrix.cols()));
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Index rows() const { return m_matrix.rows(); }
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Index cols() const { return m_matrix.cols(); }
-
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      return m_diagonal.diagonal().coeff(ProductOrder == OnTheLeft ? row : col) * m_matrix.coeff(row, col);
-    }
-    
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index idx) const
-    {
-      enum {
-        StorageOrder = int(MatrixType::Flags) & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor
-      };
-      return coeff(int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?idx:0,int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?0:idx);
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      enum {
-        StorageOrder = Flags & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor
-      };
-      const Index indexInDiagonalVector = ProductOrder == OnTheLeft ? row : col;
-      return packet_impl<LoadMode>(row,col,indexInDiagonalVector,typename internal::conditional<
-        ((int(StorageOrder) == RowMajor && int(ProductOrder) == OnTheLeft)
-       ||(int(StorageOrder) == ColMajor && int(ProductOrder) == OnTheRight)), internal::true_type, internal::false_type>::type());
-    }
-    
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index idx) const
-    {
-      enum {
-        StorageOrder = int(MatrixType::Flags) & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor
-      };
-      return packet<LoadMode>(int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?idx:0,int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?0:idx);
-    }
-
-  protected:
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet_impl(Index row, Index col, Index id, internal::true_type) const
-    {
-      return internal::pmul(m_matrix.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col),
-                     internal::pset1<PacketScalar>(m_diagonal.diagonal().coeff(id)));
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet_impl(Index row, Index col, Index id, internal::false_type) const
-    {
-      enum {
-        InnerSize = (MatrixType::Flags & RowMajorBit) ? MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime : MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime,
-        DiagonalVectorPacketLoadMode = (LoadMode == Aligned && (((InnerSize%16) == 0) || (int(DiagonalType::DiagonalVectorType::Flags)&AlignedBit)==AlignedBit) ? Aligned : Unaligned)
-      };
-      return internal::pmul(m_matrix.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col),
-                     m_diagonal.diagonal().template packet<DiagonalVectorPacketLoadMode>(id));
-    }
-
-    typename MatrixType::Nested m_matrix;
-    typename DiagonalType::Nested m_diagonal;
-};
-
 /** \returns the diagonal matrix product of \c *this by the diagonal matrix \a diagonal.
   */
 template<typename Derived>
 template<typename DiagonalDerived>
-inline const DiagonalProduct<Derived, DiagonalDerived, OnTheRight>
+inline const Product<Derived, DiagonalDerived, LazyProduct>
 MatrixBase<Derived>::operator*(const DiagonalBase<DiagonalDerived> &a_diagonal) const
 {
-  return DiagonalProduct<Derived, DiagonalDerived, OnTheRight>(derived(), a_diagonal.derived());
+  return Product<Derived, DiagonalDerived, LazyProduct>(derived(),a_diagonal.derived());
 }
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Dot.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Dot.h
index db16e4acc..68e9c2660 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Dot.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Dot.h
@@ -113,8 +113,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 inline const typename MatrixBase<Derived>::PlainObject
 MatrixBase<Derived>::normalized() const
 {
-  typedef typename internal::nested<Derived>::type Nested;
-  typedef typename internal::remove_reference<Nested>::type _Nested;
+  typedef typename internal::nested_eval<Derived,2>::type _Nested;
   _Nested n(derived());
   return n / n.norm();
 }
@@ -206,8 +205,8 @@ template<typename OtherDerived>
 bool MatrixBase<Derived>::isOrthogonal
 (const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other, const RealScalar& prec) const
 {
-  typename internal::nested<Derived,2>::type nested(derived());
-  typename internal::nested<OtherDerived,2>::type otherNested(other.derived());
+  typename internal::nested_eval<Derived,2>::type nested(derived());
+  typename internal::nested_eval<OtherDerived,2>::type otherNested(other.derived());
   return numext::abs2(nested.dot(otherNested)) <= prec * prec * nested.squaredNorm() * otherNested.squaredNorm();
 }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/EigenBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/EigenBase.h
index 1a577c2dc..52b66e6dc 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/EigenBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/EigenBase.h
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator=(const EigenBase<OtherDerived> &other)
 {
-  other.derived().evalTo(derived());
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator+=(const EigenBase<OtherDerived> &other)
 {
-  other.derived().addTo(derived());
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator-=(const EigenBase<OtherDerived> &other)
 {
-  other.derived().subTo(derived());
+  call_assignment(derived(), other.derived(), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Fuzzy.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Fuzzy.h
index f9a88dd3c..8cd069a0d 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Fuzzy.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Fuzzy.h
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ struct isApprox_selector
   static bool run(const Derived& x, const OtherDerived& y, const typename Derived::RealScalar& prec)
   {
     EIGEN_USING_STD_MATH(min);
-    typename internal::nested<Derived,2>::type nested(x);
-    typename internal::nested<OtherDerived,2>::type otherNested(y);
+    typename internal::nested_eval<Derived,2>::type nested(x);
+    typename internal::nested_eval<OtherDerived,2>::type otherNested(y);
     return (nested - otherNested).cwiseAbs2().sum() <= prec * prec * (min)(nested.cwiseAbs2().sum(), otherNested.cwiseAbs2().sum());
   }
 };
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/GeneralProduct.h b/Eigen/src/Core/GeneralProduct.h
index 624b8b6e8..e05ff8dce 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/GeneralProduct.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/GeneralProduct.h
@@ -13,28 +13,6 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-/** \class GeneralProduct
-  * \ingroup Core_Module
-  *
-  * \brief Expression of the product of two general matrices or vectors
-  *
-  * \param LhsNested the type used to store the left-hand side
-  * \param RhsNested the type used to store the right-hand side
-  * \param ProductMode the type of the product
-  *
-  * This class represents an expression of the product of two general matrices.
-  * We call a general matrix, a dense matrix with full storage. For instance,
-  * This excludes triangular, selfadjoint, and sparse matrices.
-  * It is the return type of the operator* between general matrices. Its template
-  * arguments are determined automatically by ProductReturnType. Therefore,
-  * GeneralProduct should never be used direclty. To determine the result type of a
-  * function which involves a matrix product, use ProductReturnType::Type.
-  *
-  * \sa ProductReturnType, MatrixBase::operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>&)
-  */
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductType = internal::product_type<Lhs,Rhs>::value>
-class GeneralProduct;
-
 enum {
   Large = 2,
   Small = 3
@@ -59,14 +37,14 @@ template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs> struct product_type
   typedef typename remove_all<Lhs>::type _Lhs;
   typedef typename remove_all<Rhs>::type _Rhs;
   enum {
-    MaxRows  = _Lhs::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
-    Rows  = _Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxCols  = _Rhs::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-    Cols  = _Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxDepth = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(_Lhs::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-                                           _Rhs::MaxRowsAtCompileTime),
-    Depth = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(_Lhs::ColsAtCompileTime,
-                                        _Rhs::RowsAtCompileTime)
+    MaxRows = traits<_Lhs>::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
+    Rows    = traits<_Lhs>::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxCols = traits<_Rhs>::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+    Cols    = traits<_Rhs>::ColsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxDepth = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(traits<_Lhs>::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+                                           traits<_Rhs>::MaxRowsAtCompileTime),
+    Depth = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(traits<_Lhs>::ColsAtCompileTime,
+                                        traits<_Rhs>::RowsAtCompileTime)
   };
 
   // the splitting into different lines of code here, introducing the _select enums and the typedef below,
@@ -81,7 +59,8 @@ private:
 
 public:
   enum {
-    value = selector::ret
+    value = selector::ret,
+    ret = selector::ret
   };
 #ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_PRODUCT
   static void debug()
@@ -97,6 +76,31 @@ public:
 #endif
 };
 
+// template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs> struct product_tag
+// {
+// private:
+//   
+//   typedef typename remove_all<Lhs>::type _Lhs;
+//   typedef typename remove_all<Rhs>::type _Rhs;
+//   enum {
+//     Rows  = _Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime,
+//     Cols  = _Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime,
+//     Depth = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(_Lhs::ColsAtCompileTime, _Rhs::RowsAtCompileTime)
+//   };
+// 
+//   enum {
+//     rows_select = Rows==1 ? int(Rows) : int(Large),
+//     cols_select = Cols==1 ? int(Cols) : int(Large),
+//     depth_select = Depth==1 ? int(Depth) : int(Large)
+//   };
+//   typedef product_type_selector<rows_select, cols_select, depth_select> selector;
+// 
+// public:
+//   enum {
+//     ret = selector::ret
+//   };
+// 
+// };
 
 /* The following allows to select the kind of product at compile time
  * based on the three dimensions of the product.
@@ -127,54 +131,6 @@ template<>              struct product_type_selector<Large,Large,Small>  { enum
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
-/** \class ProductReturnType
-  * \ingroup Core_Module
-  *
-  * \brief Helper class to get the correct and optimized returned type of operator*
-  *
-  * \param Lhs the type of the left-hand side
-  * \param Rhs the type of the right-hand side
-  * \param ProductMode the type of the product (determined automatically by internal::product_mode)
-  *
-  * This class defines the typename Type representing the optimized product expression
-  * between two matrix expressions. In practice, using ProductReturnType<Lhs,Rhs>::Type
-  * is the recommended way to define the result type of a function returning an expression
-  * which involve a matrix product. The class Product should never be
-  * used directly.
-  *
-  * \sa class Product, MatrixBase::operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>&)
-  */
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductType>
-struct ProductReturnType
-{
-  // TODO use the nested type to reduce instanciations ????
-//   typedef typename internal::nested<Lhs,Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime>::type LhsNested;
-//   typedef typename internal::nested<Rhs,Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime>::type RhsNested;
-
-  typedef GeneralProduct<Lhs/*Nested*/, Rhs/*Nested*/, ProductType> Type;
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct ProductReturnType<Lhs,Rhs,CoeffBasedProductMode>
-{
-  typedef typename internal::nested<Lhs, Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime, typename internal::plain_matrix_type<Lhs>::type >::type LhsNested;
-  typedef typename internal::nested<Rhs, Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime, typename internal::plain_matrix_type<Rhs>::type >::type RhsNested;
-  typedef CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, EvalBeforeAssigningBit | EvalBeforeNestingBit> Type;
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct ProductReturnType<Lhs,Rhs,LazyCoeffBasedProductMode>
-{
-  typedef typename internal::nested<Lhs, Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime, typename internal::plain_matrix_type<Lhs>::type >::type LhsNested;
-  typedef typename internal::nested<Rhs, Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime, typename internal::plain_matrix_type<Rhs>::type >::type RhsNested;
-  typedef CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, NestByRefBit> Type;
-};
-
-// this is a workaround for sun CC
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct LazyProductReturnType : public ProductReturnType<Lhs,Rhs,LazyCoeffBasedProductMode>
-{};
-
 /***********************************************************************
 *  Implementation of Inner Vector Vector Product
 ***********************************************************************/
@@ -186,119 +142,10 @@ struct LazyProductReturnType : public ProductReturnType<Lhs,Rhs,LazyCoeffBasedPr
 // product ends up to a row-vector times col-vector product... To tackle this use
 // case, we could have a specialization for Block<MatrixType,1,1> with: operator=(Scalar x);
 
-namespace internal {
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,InnerProduct> >
- : traits<Matrix<typename scalar_product_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar>::ReturnType,1,1> >
-{};
-
-}
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, InnerProduct>
-  : internal::no_assignment_operator,
-    public Matrix<typename internal::scalar_product_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar>::ReturnType,1,1>
-{
-    typedef Matrix<typename internal::scalar_product_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar>::ReturnType,1,1> Base;
-  public:
-    GeneralProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((internal::is_same<typename Lhs::RealScalar, typename Rhs::RealScalar>::value),
-        YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
-
-      Base::coeffRef(0,0) = (lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs)).sum();
-    }
-
-    /** Convertion to scalar */
-    operator const typename Base::Scalar() const {
-      return Base::coeff(0,0);
-    }
-};
-
 /***********************************************************************
 *  Implementation of Outer Vector Vector Product
 ***********************************************************************/
 
-namespace internal {
-
-// Column major
-template<typename ProductType, typename Dest, typename Func>
-EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void outer_product_selector_run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const Func& func, const false_type&)
-{
-  typedef typename Dest::Index Index;
-  // FIXME make sure lhs is sequentially stored
-  // FIXME not very good if rhs is real and lhs complex while alpha is real too
-  const Index cols = dest.cols();
-  for (Index j=0; j<cols; ++j)
-    func(dest.col(j), prod.rhs().coeff(j) * prod.lhs());
-}
-
-// Row major
-template<typename ProductType, typename Dest, typename Func>
-EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void outer_product_selector_run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const Func& func, const true_type&) {
-  typedef typename Dest::Index Index;
-  // FIXME make sure rhs is sequentially stored
-  // FIXME not very good if lhs is real and rhs complex while alpha is real too
-  const Index rows = dest.rows();
-  for (Index i=0; i<rows; ++i)
-    func(dest.row(i), prod.lhs().coeff(i) * prod.rhs());
-}
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,OuterProduct> >
- : traits<ProductBase<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,OuterProduct>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-
-}
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, OuterProduct>
-  : public ProductBase<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,OuterProduct>, Lhs, Rhs>
-{
-    template<typename T> struct IsRowMajor : internal::conditional<(int(T::Flags)&RowMajorBit), internal::true_type, internal::false_type>::type {};
-    
-  public:
-    EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(GeneralProduct)
-
-    GeneralProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((internal::is_same<typename Lhs::RealScalar, typename Rhs::RealScalar>::value),
-        YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
-    }
-    
-    struct set  { template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const { dst.const_cast_derived()  = src; } };
-    struct add  { template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const { dst.const_cast_derived() += src; } };
-    struct sub  { template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const { dst.const_cast_derived() -= src; } };
-    struct adds {
-      Scalar m_scale;
-      adds(const Scalar& s) : m_scale(s) {}
-      template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const {
-        dst.const_cast_derived() += m_scale * src;
-      }
-    };
-    
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void evalTo(Dest& dest) const {
-      internal::outer_product_selector_run(*this, dest, set(), IsRowMajor<Dest>());
-    }
-    
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void addTo(Dest& dest) const {
-      internal::outer_product_selector_run(*this, dest, add(), IsRowMajor<Dest>());
-    }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void subTo(Dest& dest) const {
-      internal::outer_product_selector_run(*this, dest, sub(), IsRowMajor<Dest>());
-    }
-
-    template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dest, const Scalar& alpha) const
-    {
-      internal::outer_product_selector_run(*this, dest, adds(alpha), IsRowMajor<Dest>());
-    }
-};
-
 /***********************************************************************
 *  Implementation of General Matrix Vector Product
 ***********************************************************************/
@@ -312,60 +159,13 @@ class GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, OuterProduct>
  */
 namespace internal {
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,GemvProduct> >
- : traits<ProductBase<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,GemvProduct>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-
 template<int Side, int StorageOrder, bool BlasCompatible>
-struct gemv_selector;
+struct gemv_dense_sense_selector;
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, GemvProduct>
-  : public ProductBase<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,GemvProduct>, Lhs, Rhs>
-{
-  public:
-    EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(GeneralProduct)
-
-    typedef typename Lhs::Scalar LhsScalar;
-    typedef typename Rhs::Scalar RhsScalar;
-
-    GeneralProduct(const Lhs& a_lhs, const Rhs& a_rhs) : Base(a_lhs,a_rhs)
-    {
-//       EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((internal::is_same<typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar>::value),
-//         YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
-    }
-
-    enum { Side = Lhs::IsVectorAtCompileTime ? OnTheLeft : OnTheRight };
-    typedef typename internal::conditional<int(Side)==OnTheRight,_LhsNested,_RhsNested>::type MatrixType;
-
-    template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const
-    {
-      eigen_assert(m_lhs.rows() == dst.rows() && m_rhs.cols() == dst.cols());
-      internal::gemv_selector<Side,(int(MatrixType::Flags)&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
-                       bool(internal::blas_traits<MatrixType>::HasUsableDirectAccess)>::run(*this, dst, alpha);
-    }
-};
-
 namespace internal {
 
-// The vector is on the left => transposition
-template<int StorageOrder, bool BlasCompatible>
-struct gemv_selector<OnTheLeft,StorageOrder,BlasCompatible>
-{
-  template<typename ProductType, typename Dest>
-  static void run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const typename ProductType::Scalar& alpha)
-  {
-    Transpose<Dest> destT(dest);
-    enum { OtherStorageOrder = StorageOrder == RowMajor ? ColMajor : RowMajor };
-    gemv_selector<OnTheRight,OtherStorageOrder,BlasCompatible>
-      ::run(GeneralProduct<Transpose<const typename ProductType::_RhsNested>,Transpose<const typename ProductType::_LhsNested>, GemvProduct>
-        (prod.rhs().transpose(), prod.lhs().transpose()), destT, alpha);
-  }
-};
-
 template<typename Scalar,int Size,int MaxSize,bool Cond> struct gemv_static_vector_if;
 
 template<typename Scalar,int Size,int MaxSize>
@@ -402,27 +202,43 @@ struct gemv_static_vector_if<Scalar,Size,MaxSize,true>
   #endif
 };
 
-template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,ColMajor,true>
+// The vector is on the left => transposition
+template<int StorageOrder, bool BlasCompatible>
+struct gemv_dense_sense_selector<OnTheLeft,StorageOrder,BlasCompatible>
+{
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
+  {
+    Transpose<Dest> destT(dest);
+    enum { OtherStorageOrder = StorageOrder == RowMajor ? ColMajor : RowMajor };
+    gemv_dense_sense_selector<OnTheRight,OtherStorageOrder,BlasCompatible>
+      ::run(rhs.transpose(), lhs.transpose(), destT, alpha);
+  }
+};
+
+template<> struct gemv_dense_sense_selector<OnTheRight,ColMajor,true>
 {
-  template<typename ProductType, typename Dest>
-  static inline void run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const typename ProductType::Scalar& alpha)
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static inline void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    typedef typename ProductType::Index Index;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsScalar   LhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsScalar   RhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Scalar      ResScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RealScalar  RealScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualLhsType ActualLhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualRhsType ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsBlasTraits LhsBlasTraits;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsBlasTraits RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename Dest::Index Index;
+    typedef typename Lhs::Scalar   LhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Rhs::Scalar   RhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Dest::Scalar  ResScalar;
+    typedef typename Dest::RealScalar  RealScalar;
+    
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+  
     typedef Map<Matrix<ResScalar,Dynamic,1>, Aligned> MappedDest;
 
-    ActualLhsType actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.lhs());
-    ActualRhsType actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.rhs());
+    ActualLhsType actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(lhs);
+    ActualRhsType actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(rhs);
 
-    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.lhs())
-                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.rhs());
+    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(lhs)
+                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(rhs);
 
     enum {
       // FIXME find a way to allow an inner stride on the result if packet_traits<Scalar>::size==1
@@ -445,7 +261,7 @@ template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,ColMajor,true>
     if(!evalToDest)
     {
       #ifdef EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
-      Index size = dest.size();
+      int size = dest.size();
       EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
       #endif
       if(!alphaIsCompatible)
@@ -475,34 +291,35 @@ template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,ColMajor,true>
   }
 };
 
-template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,true>
+template<> struct gemv_dense_sense_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,true>
 {
-  template<typename ProductType, typename Dest>
-  static void run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const typename ProductType::Scalar& alpha)
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsScalar LhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsScalar RhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Scalar    ResScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Index Index;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualLhsType ActualLhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualRhsType ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::_ActualRhsType _ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsBlasTraits LhsBlasTraits;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsBlasTraits RhsBlasTraits;
-
-    typename add_const<ActualLhsType>::type actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.lhs());
-    typename add_const<ActualRhsType>::type actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.rhs());
-
-    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.lhs())
-                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.rhs());
+    typedef typename Dest::Index Index;
+    typedef typename Lhs::Scalar   LhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Rhs::Scalar   RhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Dest::Scalar  ResScalar;
+    
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualRhsType>::type ActualRhsTypeCleaned;
+
+    typename add_const<ActualLhsType>::type actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(lhs);
+    typename add_const<ActualRhsType>::type actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(rhs);
+
+    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(lhs)
+                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(rhs);
 
     enum {
       // FIXME find a way to allow an inner stride on the result if packet_traits<Scalar>::size==1
       // on, the other hand it is good for the cache to pack the vector anyways...
-      DirectlyUseRhs = _ActualRhsType::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1
+      DirectlyUseRhs = ActualRhsTypeCleaned::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1
     };
 
-    gemv_static_vector_if<RhsScalar,_ActualRhsType::SizeAtCompileTime,_ActualRhsType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!DirectlyUseRhs> static_rhs;
+    gemv_static_vector_if<RhsScalar,ActualRhsTypeCleaned::SizeAtCompileTime,ActualRhsTypeCleaned::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!DirectlyUseRhs> static_rhs;
 
     ei_declare_aligned_stack_constructed_variable(RhsScalar,actualRhsPtr,actualRhs.size(),
         DirectlyUseRhs ? const_cast<RhsScalar*>(actualRhs.data()) : static_rhs.data());
@@ -510,10 +327,10 @@ template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,true>
     if(!DirectlyUseRhs)
     {
       #ifdef EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
-      Index size = actualRhs.size();
+      int size = actualRhs.size();
       EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
       #endif
-      Map<typename _ActualRhsType::PlainObject>(actualRhsPtr, actualRhs.size()) = actualRhs;
+      Map<typename ActualRhsTypeCleaned::PlainObject>(actualRhsPtr, actualRhs.size()) = actualRhs;
     }
 
     general_matrix_vector_product
@@ -526,29 +343,29 @@ template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,true>
   }
 };
 
-template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,ColMajor,false>
+template<> struct gemv_dense_sense_selector<OnTheRight,ColMajor,false>
 {
-  template<typename ProductType, typename Dest>
-  static void run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const typename ProductType::Scalar& alpha)
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
     typedef typename Dest::Index Index;
     // TODO makes sure dest is sequentially stored in memory, otherwise use a temp
-    const Index size = prod.rhs().rows();
+    const Index size = rhs.rows();
     for(Index k=0; k<size; ++k)
-      dest += (alpha*prod.rhs().coeff(k)) * prod.lhs().col(k);
+      dest += (alpha*rhs.coeff(k)) * lhs.col(k);
   }
 };
 
-template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,false>
+template<> struct gemv_dense_sense_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,false>
 {
-  template<typename ProductType, typename Dest>
-  static void run(const ProductType& prod, Dest& dest, const typename ProductType::Scalar& alpha)
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
     typedef typename Dest::Index Index;
     // TODO makes sure rhs is sequentially stored in memory, otherwise use a temp
-    const Index rows = prod.rows();
+    const Index rows = dest.rows();
     for(Index i=0; i<rows; ++i)
-      dest.coeffRef(i) += alpha * (prod.lhs().row(i).cwiseProduct(prod.rhs().transpose())).sum();
+      dest.coeffRef(i) += alpha * (lhs.row(i).cwiseProduct(rhs.transpose())).sum();
   }
 };
 
@@ -566,7 +383,6 @@ template<> struct gemv_selector<OnTheRight,RowMajor,false>
   */
 #ifndef __CUDACC__
 
-#ifdef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
 template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 inline const Product<Derived, OtherDerived>
@@ -597,39 +413,9 @@ MatrixBase<Derived>::operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const
   
   return Product<Derived, OtherDerived>(derived(), other.derived());
 }
-#else
-template<typename Derived>
-template<typename OtherDerived>
-inline const typename ProductReturnType<Derived, OtherDerived>::Type
-MatrixBase<Derived>::operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const
-{
-  // A note regarding the function declaration: In MSVC, this function will sometimes
-  // not be inlined since DenseStorage is an unwindable object for dynamic
-  // matrices and product types are holding a member to store the result.
-  // Thus it does not help tagging this function with EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE.
-  enum {
-    ProductIsValid =  Derived::ColsAtCompileTime==Dynamic
-                   || OtherDerived::RowsAtCompileTime==Dynamic
-                   || int(Derived::ColsAtCompileTime)==int(OtherDerived::RowsAtCompileTime),
-    AreVectors = Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime && OtherDerived::IsVectorAtCompileTime,
-    SameSizes = EIGEN_PREDICATE_SAME_MATRIX_SIZE(Derived,OtherDerived)
-  };
-  // note to the lost user:
-  //    * for a dot product use: v1.dot(v2)
-  //    * for a coeff-wise product use: v1.cwiseProduct(v2)
-  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(ProductIsValid || !(AreVectors && SameSizes),
-    INVALID_VECTOR_VECTOR_PRODUCT__IF_YOU_WANTED_A_DOT_OR_COEFF_WISE_PRODUCT_YOU_MUST_USE_THE_EXPLICIT_FUNCTIONS)
-  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(ProductIsValid || !(SameSizes && !AreVectors),
-    INVALID_MATRIX_PRODUCT__IF_YOU_WANTED_A_COEFF_WISE_PRODUCT_YOU_MUST_USE_THE_EXPLICIT_FUNCTION)
-  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(ProductIsValid || SameSizes, INVALID_MATRIX_PRODUCT)
-#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_PRODUCT
-  internal::product_type<Derived,OtherDerived>::debug();
-#endif
-  return typename ProductReturnType<Derived,OtherDerived>::Type(derived(), other.derived());
-}
-#endif
 
-#endif
+#endif // __CUDACC__
+
 /** \returns an expression of the matrix product of \c *this and \a other without implicit evaluation.
   *
   * The returned product will behave like any other expressions: the coefficients of the product will be
@@ -643,7 +429,7 @@ MatrixBase<Derived>::operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const
   */
 template<typename Derived>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
-const typename LazyProductReturnType<Derived,OtherDerived>::Type
+const Product<Derived,OtherDerived,LazyProduct>
 MatrixBase<Derived>::lazyProduct(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const
 {
   enum {
@@ -662,7 +448,7 @@ MatrixBase<Derived>::lazyProduct(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const
     INVALID_MATRIX_PRODUCT__IF_YOU_WANTED_A_COEFF_WISE_PRODUCT_YOU_MUST_USE_THE_EXPLICIT_FUNCTION)
   EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(ProductIsValid || SameSizes, INVALID_MATRIX_PRODUCT)
 
-  return typename LazyProductReturnType<Derived,OtherDerived>::Type(derived(), other.derived());
+  return Product<Derived,OtherDerived,LazyProduct>(derived(), other.derived());
 }
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Inverse.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Inverse.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5cfa7e50c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Inverse.h
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
+// for linear algebra.
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
+// Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
+// with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+#ifndef EIGEN_INVERSE_H
+#define EIGEN_INVERSE_H
+
+namespace Eigen { 
+
+// TODO move the general declaration in Core, and rename this file DenseInverseImpl.h, or something like this...
+
+template<typename XprType,typename StorageKind> class InverseImpl;
+
+namespace internal {
+
+template<typename XprType>
+struct traits<Inverse<XprType> >
+  : traits<typename XprType::PlainObject>
+{
+  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  typedef traits<PlainObject> BaseTraits;
+  enum {
+    Flags = BaseTraits::Flags & RowMajorBit,
+    CoeffReadCost = Dynamic
+  };
+};
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
+/** \class Inverse
+  *
+  * \brief Expression of the inverse of another expression
+  *
+  * \tparam XprType the type of the expression we are taking the inverse
+  *
+  * This class represents an abstract expression of A.inverse()
+  * and most of the time this is the only way it is used.
+  *
+  */
+template<typename XprType>
+class Inverse : public InverseImpl<XprType,typename internal::traits<XprType>::StorageKind>
+{
+public:
+  typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
+  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject                       PlainObject;
+  typedef typename internal::nested<XprType>::type            XprTypeNested;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<XprTypeNested>::type  XprTypeNestedCleaned;
+  
+  Inverse(const XprType &xpr)
+    : m_xpr(xpr)
+  {}
+  
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC Index rows() const { return m_xpr.rows(); }
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC Index cols() const { return m_xpr.cols(); }
+
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC const XprTypeNestedCleaned& nestedExpression() const { return m_xpr; }
+
+protected:
+  XprTypeNested m_xpr;
+};
+
+/** \internal
+  * Specialization of the Inverse expression for dense expressions.
+  * Direct access to the coefficients are discared.
+  * FIXME this intermediate class is probably not needed anymore.
+  */
+template<typename XprType>
+class InverseImpl<XprType,Dense>
+  : public MatrixBase<Inverse<XprType> >
+{
+  typedef Inverse<XprType> Derived;
+  
+public:
+  
+  typedef MatrixBase<Derived> Base;
+  EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived)
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<XprType>::type NestedExpression;
+
+private:
+  
+  Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const;
+  Scalar coeff(Index i) const;
+};
+
+namespace internal {
+
+/** \internal
+  * \brief Default evaluator for Inverse expression.
+  * 
+  * This default evaluator for Inverse expression simply evaluate the inverse into a temporary
+  * by a call to internal::call_assignment_no_alias.
+  * Therefore, inverse implementers only have to specialize Assignment<Dst,Inverse<...>, ...> for
+  * there own nested expression.
+  *
+  * \sa class Inverse
+  */
+template<typename ArgType>
+struct unary_evaluator<Inverse<ArgType> >
+  : public evaluator<typename Inverse<ArgType>::PlainObject>::type
+{
+  typedef Inverse<ArgType> InverseType;
+  typedef typename InverseType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator<InverseType> type;
+  typedef evaluator<InverseType> nestedType;
+  
+  enum { Flags = Base::Flags | EvalBeforeNestingBit };
+
+  unary_evaluator(const InverseType& inv_xpr)
+    : m_result(inv_xpr.rows(), inv_xpr.cols())
+  {
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    internal::call_assignment_no_alias(m_result, inv_xpr);
+  }
+  
+protected:
+  PlainObject m_result;
+};
+  
+} // end namespace internal
+
+} // end namespace Eigen
+
+#endif // EIGEN_INVERSE_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Map.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Map.h
index ced1b76ba..87c1787bf 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Map.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Map.h
@@ -79,22 +79,9 @@ struct traits<Map<PlainObjectType, MapOptions, StrideType> >
     OuterStrideAtCompileTime = StrideType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime == 0
                              ? int(PlainObjectType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime)
                              : int(StrideType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime),
-    HasNoInnerStride = InnerStrideAtCompileTime == 1,
-    HasNoOuterStride = StrideType::OuterStrideAtCompileTime == 0,
-    HasNoStride = HasNoInnerStride && HasNoOuterStride,
     IsAligned = bool(EIGEN_ALIGN) && ((int(MapOptions)&Aligned)==Aligned),
-    IsDynamicSize = PlainObjectType::SizeAtCompileTime==Dynamic,
-    KeepsPacketAccess = bool(HasNoInnerStride)
-                        && ( bool(IsDynamicSize)
-                           || HasNoOuterStride
-                           || ( OuterStrideAtCompileTime!=Dynamic
-                           && ((static_cast<int>(sizeof(Scalar))*OuterStrideAtCompileTime)%EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES)==0 ) ),
     Flags0 = TraitsBase::Flags & (~NestByRefBit),
-    Flags1 = IsAligned ? (int(Flags0) | AlignedBit) : (int(Flags0) & ~AlignedBit),
-    Flags2 = (bool(HasNoStride) || bool(PlainObjectType::IsVectorAtCompileTime))
-           ? int(Flags1) : int(Flags1 & ~LinearAccessBit),
-    Flags3 = is_lvalue<PlainObjectType>::value ? int(Flags2) : (int(Flags2) & ~LvalueBit),
-    Flags = KeepsPacketAccess ? int(Flags3) : (int(Flags3) & ~PacketAccessBit)
+    Flags = is_lvalue<PlainObjectType>::value ? int(Flags0) : (int(Flags0) & ~LvalueBit)
   };
 private:
   enum { Options }; // Expressions don't have Options
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/MapBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/MapBase.h
index e8ecb175b..6d3b344e8 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/MapBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/MapBase.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #define EIGEN_MAPBASE_H
 
 #define EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_INDEX_BASED_ACCESS(Derived) \
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((int(internal::traits<Derived>::Flags) & LinearAccessBit) || Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime, \
+      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((int(internal::evaluator<Derived>::Flags) & LinearAccessBit) || Derived::IsVectorAtCompileTime, \
                           YOU_ARE_TRYING_TO_USE_AN_INDEX_BASED_ACCESSOR_ON_AN_EXPRESSION_THAT_DOES_NOT_SUPPORT_THAT)
 
 namespace Eigen { 
@@ -161,11 +161,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class MapBase<Derived, ReadOnlyAccessors>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void checkSanity() const
     {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(EIGEN_IMPLIES(internal::traits<Derived>::Flags&PacketAccessBit,
-                                        internal::inner_stride_at_compile_time<Derived>::ret==1),
-                          PACKET_ACCESS_REQUIRES_TO_HAVE_INNER_STRIDE_FIXED_TO_1);
-      eigen_assert(EIGEN_IMPLIES(internal::traits<Derived>::Flags&AlignedBit, (size_t(m_data) % EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES) == 0)
-                   && "data is not aligned");
+      eigen_assert(EIGEN_IMPLIES(internal::traits<Derived>::IsAligned, (size_t(m_data) % EIGEN_ALIGN_BYTES) == 0) && "data is not aligned");
     }
 
     PointerType m_data;
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/MathFunctions.h b/Eigen/src/Core/MathFunctions.h
index 20fc2be74..73859b0ee 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/MathFunctions.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/MathFunctions.h
@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@
 
 namespace Eigen {
 
+// On WINCE, std::abs is defined for int only, so let's defined our own overloads:
+// This issue has been confirmed with MSVC 2008 only, but the issue might exist for more recent versions too.
+#if defined(_WIN32_WCE) && defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER<=1500
+long        abs(long        x) { return (labs(x));  }
+double      abs(double      x) { return (fabs(x));  }
+float       abs(float       x) { return (fabsf(x)); }
+long double abs(long double x) { return (fabsl(x)); }
+#endif
+  
 namespace internal {
 
 /** \internal \struct global_math_functions_filtering_base
@@ -308,10 +317,17 @@ struct hypot_impl
     using std::sqrt;
     RealScalar _x = abs(x);
     RealScalar _y = abs(y);
-    RealScalar p = (max)(_x, _y);
-    if(p==RealScalar(0)) return 0;
-    RealScalar q = (min)(_x, _y);
-    RealScalar qp = q/p;
+    Scalar p, qp;
+    if(_x>_y)
+    {
+      p = _x;
+      qp = _y / p;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      p = _y;
+      qp = _x / p;
+    }
     return p * sqrt(RealScalar(1) + qp*qp);
   }
 };
@@ -678,6 +694,21 @@ bool (isfinite)(const std::complex<T>& x)
   return isfinite(real(x)) && isfinite(imag(x));
 }
 
+// Log base 2 for 32 bits positive integers.
+// Conveniently returns 0 for x==0.
+inline int log2(int x)
+{
+  eigen_assert(x>=0);
+  unsigned int v(x);
+  static const int table[32] = { 0, 9, 1, 10, 13, 21, 2, 29, 11, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 3, 30, 8, 12, 20, 28, 15, 17, 24, 7, 19, 27, 23, 6, 26, 5, 4, 31 };
+  v |= v >> 1;
+  v |= v >> 2;
+  v |= v >> 4;
+  v |= v >> 8;
+  v |= v >> 16;
+  return table[(v * 0x07C4ACDDU) >> 27];
+}
+
 } // end namespace numext
 
 namespace internal {
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Matrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Matrix.h
index 8c95ee3ca..8a5821548 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Matrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Matrix.h
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ struct traits<Matrix<_Scalar, _Rows, _Cols, _Options, _MaxRows, _MaxCols> >
     MaxRowsAtCompileTime = _MaxRows,
     MaxColsAtCompileTime = _MaxCols,
     Flags = compute_matrix_flags<_Scalar, _Rows, _Cols, _Options, _MaxRows, _MaxCols>::ret,
-    CoeffReadCost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost,
+    // FIXME, the following flag in only used to define NeedsToAlign in PlainObjectBase
+    EvaluatorFlags = compute_matrix_evaluator_flags<_Scalar, _Rows, _Cols, _Options, _MaxRows, _MaxCols>::ret,
     Options = _Options,
     InnerStrideAtCompileTime = 1,
     OuterStrideAtCompileTime = (Options&RowMajor) ? ColsAtCompileTime : RowsAtCompileTime
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/MatrixBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/MatrixBase.h
index f5987d194..9dbbd6fb5 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/MatrixBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/MatrixBase.h
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class MatrixBase
     using Base::MaxSizeAtCompileTime;
     using Base::IsVectorAtCompileTime;
     using Base::Flags;
-    using Base::CoeffReadCost;
-
+    
     using Base::derived;
     using Base::const_cast_derived;
     using Base::rows;
@@ -81,6 +80,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class MatrixBase
     using Base::operator-=;
     using Base::operator*=;
     using Base::operator/=;
+    using Base::operator*;
 
     typedef typename Base::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
     typedef typename Base::ConstTransposeReturnType ConstTransposeReturnType;
@@ -185,21 +185,15 @@ template<typename Derived> class MatrixBase
     { return this->lazyProduct(other); }
 #else
 
-#ifdef EIGEN_TEST_EVALUATORS
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     const Product<Derived,OtherDerived>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const;
-#else
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    const typename ProductReturnType<Derived,OtherDerived>::Type
-    operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const;
-#endif
 
 #endif
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-    const typename LazyProductReturnType<Derived,OtherDerived>::Type
+    const Product<Derived,OtherDerived,LazyProduct>
     lazyProduct(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived> &other) const;
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
@@ -213,7 +207,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class MatrixBase
 
     template<typename DiagonalDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const DiagonalProduct<Derived, DiagonalDerived, OnTheRight>
+    const Product<Derived, DiagonalDerived, LazyProduct>
     operator*(const DiagonalBase<DiagonalDerived> &diagonal) const;
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
@@ -333,10 +327,12 @@ template<typename Derived> class MatrixBase
 
     NoAlias<Derived,Eigen::MatrixBase > noalias();
 
-    inline const ForceAlignedAccess<Derived> forceAlignedAccess() const;
-    inline ForceAlignedAccess<Derived> forceAlignedAccess();
-    template<bool Enable> inline typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<typename internal::conditional<Enable,ForceAlignedAccess<Derived>,Derived&>::type>::type forceAlignedAccessIf() const;
-    template<bool Enable> inline typename internal::conditional<Enable,ForceAlignedAccess<Derived>,Derived&>::type forceAlignedAccessIf();
+    // TODO forceAlignedAccess is temporarly disabled
+    // Need to find a nicer workaround.
+    inline const Derived& forceAlignedAccess() const { return derived(); }
+    inline Derived& forceAlignedAccess() { return derived(); }
+    template<bool Enable> inline const Derived& forceAlignedAccessIf() const { return derived(); }
+    template<bool Enable> inline Derived& forceAlignedAccessIf() { return derived(); }
 
     Scalar trace() const;
 
@@ -360,7 +356,8 @@ template<typename Derived> class MatrixBase
     const PartialPivLU<PlainObject> lu() const;
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const internal::inverse_impl<Derived> inverse() const;
+    const Inverse<Derived> inverse() const;
+    
     template<typename ResultType>
     void computeInverseAndDetWithCheck(
       ResultType& inverse,
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/NoAlias.h b/Eigen/src/Core/NoAlias.h
index 0a1c32743..097c9c062 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/NoAlias.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/NoAlias.h
@@ -30,68 +30,35 @@ namespace Eigen {
 template<typename ExpressionType, template <typename> class StorageBase>
 class NoAlias
 {
-    typedef typename ExpressionType::Scalar Scalar;
   public:
+    typedef typename ExpressionType::Scalar Scalar;
+    
     NoAlias(ExpressionType& expression) : m_expression(expression) {}
-
-    /** Behaves like MatrixBase::lazyAssign(other)
-      * \sa MatrixBase::lazyAssign() */
+    
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator=(const StorageBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    { return internal::assign_selector<ExpressionType,OtherDerived,false>::run(m_expression,other.derived()); }
-
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::operator+= */
+    {
+      call_assignment_no_alias(m_expression, other.derived(), internal::assign_op<Scalar>());
+      return m_expression;
+    }
+    
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator+=(const StorageBase<OtherDerived>& other)
     {
-      typedef SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>, ExpressionType, OtherDerived> SelfAdder;
-      SelfAdder tmp(m_expression);
-      typedef typename internal::nested<OtherDerived>::type OtherDerivedNested;
-      typedef typename internal::remove_all<OtherDerivedNested>::type _OtherDerivedNested;
-      internal::assign_selector<SelfAdder,_OtherDerivedNested,false>::run(tmp,OtherDerivedNested(other.derived()));
+      call_assignment_no_alias(m_expression, other.derived(), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
       return m_expression;
     }
-
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::operator-= */
+    
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator-=(const StorageBase<OtherDerived>& other)
     {
-      typedef SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_difference_op<Scalar>, ExpressionType, OtherDerived> SelfAdder;
-      SelfAdder tmp(m_expression);
-      typedef typename internal::nested<OtherDerived>::type OtherDerivedNested;
-      typedef typename internal::remove_all<OtherDerivedNested>::type _OtherDerivedNested;
-      internal::assign_selector<SelfAdder,_OtherDerivedNested,false>::run(tmp,OtherDerivedNested(other.derived()));
+      call_assignment_no_alias(m_expression, other.derived(), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
       return m_expression;
     }
 
-#ifndef EIGEN_PARSED_BY_DOXYGEN
-    template<typename ProductDerived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator+=(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, Lhs,Rhs>& other)
-    { other.derived().addTo(m_expression); return m_expression; }
-
-    template<typename ProductDerived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator-=(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, Lhs,Rhs>& other)
-    { other.derived().subTo(m_expression); return m_expression; }
-
-    template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int NestingFlags>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator+=(const CoeffBasedProduct<Lhs,Rhs,NestingFlags>& other)
-    { return m_expression.derived() += CoeffBasedProduct<Lhs,Rhs,NestByRefBit>(other.lhs(), other.rhs()); }
-
-    template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int NestingFlags>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator-=(const CoeffBasedProduct<Lhs,Rhs,NestingFlags>& other)
-    { return m_expression.derived() -= CoeffBasedProduct<Lhs,Rhs,NestByRefBit>(other.lhs(), other.rhs()); }
-    
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    ExpressionType& operator=(const ReturnByValue<OtherDerived>& func)
-    { return m_expression = func; }
-#endif
-
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     ExpressionType& expression() const
     {
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h
index 8aa4c8bc5..200518173 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-template<int RowCol,typename IndicesType,typename MatrixType, typename StorageKind> class PermutedImpl;
+// TODO: this does not seems to be needed at all:
+// template<int RowCol,typename IndicesType,typename MatrixType, typename StorageKind> class PermutedImpl;
 
 /** \class PermutationBase
   * \ingroup Core_Module
@@ -60,7 +61,6 @@ class PermutationBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
     typedef typename Traits::IndicesType IndicesType;
     enum {
       Flags = Traits::Flags,
-      CoeffReadCost = Traits::CoeffReadCost,
       RowsAtCompileTime = Traits::RowsAtCompileTime,
       ColsAtCompileTime = Traits::ColsAtCompileTime,
       MaxRowsAtCompileTime = Traits::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ template<int SizeAtCompileTime, int MaxSizeAtCompileTime, typename _StorageIndex
 struct traits<PermutationMatrix<SizeAtCompileTime, MaxSizeAtCompileTime, _StorageIndexType> >
  : traits<Matrix<_StorageIndexType,SizeAtCompileTime,SizeAtCompileTime,0,MaxSizeAtCompileTime,MaxSizeAtCompileTime> >
 {
+  typedef PermutationStorage StorageKind;
   typedef Matrix<_StorageIndexType, SizeAtCompileTime, 1, 0, MaxSizeAtCompileTime, 1> IndicesType;
   typedef typename IndicesType::Index Index;
   typedef _StorageIndexType StorageIndexType;
@@ -287,6 +288,8 @@ class PermutationMatrix : public PermutationBase<PermutationMatrix<SizeAtCompile
     typedef internal::traits<PermutationMatrix> Traits;
   public:
 
+    typedef const PermutationMatrix& Nested;
+
     #ifndef EIGEN_PARSED_BY_DOXYGEN
     typedef typename Traits::IndicesType IndicesType;
     typedef typename Traits::StorageIndexType StorageIndexType;
@@ -391,6 +394,7 @@ template<int SizeAtCompileTime, int MaxSizeAtCompileTime, typename _StorageIndex
 struct traits<Map<PermutationMatrix<SizeAtCompileTime, MaxSizeAtCompileTime, _StorageIndexType>,_PacketAccess> >
  : traits<Matrix<_StorageIndexType,SizeAtCompileTime,SizeAtCompileTime,0,MaxSizeAtCompileTime,MaxSizeAtCompileTime> >
 {
+  typedef PermutationStorage StorageKind;
   typedef Map<const Matrix<_StorageIndexType, SizeAtCompileTime, 1, 0, MaxSizeAtCompileTime, 1>, _PacketAccess> IndicesType;
   typedef typename IndicesType::Index Index;
   typedef _StorageIndexType StorageIndexType;
@@ -462,8 +466,6 @@ class Map<PermutationMatrix<SizeAtCompileTime, MaxSizeAtCompileTime, _StorageInd
   * \sa class PermutationBase, class PermutationMatrix
   */
 
-struct PermutationStorage {};
-
 template<typename _IndicesType> class TranspositionsWrapper;
 namespace internal {
 template<typename _IndicesType>
@@ -477,10 +479,9 @@ struct traits<PermutationWrapper<_IndicesType> >
   enum {
     RowsAtCompileTime = _IndicesType::SizeAtCompileTime,
     ColsAtCompileTime = _IndicesType::SizeAtCompileTime,
-    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = IndicesType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxColsAtCompileTime = IndicesType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-    Flags = 0,
-    CoeffReadCost = _IndicesType::CoeffReadCost
+    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = IndicesType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,
+    MaxColsAtCompileTime = IndicesType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,
+    Flags = 0
   };
 };
 }
@@ -509,35 +510,39 @@ class PermutationWrapper : public PermutationBase<PermutationWrapper<_IndicesTyp
     typename IndicesType::Nested m_indices;
 };
 
+
+// TODO: Do we need to define these operator* functions? Would it be better to have them inherited
+// from MatrixBase?
+
 /** \returns the matrix with the permutation applied to the columns.
   */
-template<typename Derived, typename PermutationDerived>
-inline const internal::permut_matrix_product_retval<PermutationDerived, Derived, OnTheRight>
-operator*(const MatrixBase<Derived>& matrix,
-          const PermutationBase<PermutationDerived> &permutation)
+template<typename MatrixDerived, typename PermutationDerived>
+EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+const Product<MatrixDerived, PermutationDerived, DefaultProduct>
+operator*(const MatrixBase<MatrixDerived> &matrix,
+          const PermutationBase<PermutationDerived>& permutation)
 {
-  return internal::permut_matrix_product_retval
-           <PermutationDerived, Derived, OnTheRight>
-           (permutation.derived(), matrix.derived());
+  return Product<MatrixDerived, PermutationDerived, DefaultProduct>
+            (matrix.derived(), permutation.derived());
 }
 
 /** \returns the matrix with the permutation applied to the rows.
   */
-template<typename Derived, typename PermutationDerived>
-inline const internal::permut_matrix_product_retval
-               <PermutationDerived, Derived, OnTheLeft>
+template<typename PermutationDerived, typename MatrixDerived>
+EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+const Product<PermutationDerived, MatrixDerived, DefaultProduct>
 operator*(const PermutationBase<PermutationDerived> &permutation,
-          const MatrixBase<Derived>& matrix)
+          const MatrixBase<MatrixDerived>& matrix)
 {
-  return internal::permut_matrix_product_retval
-           <PermutationDerived, Derived, OnTheLeft>
-           (permutation.derived(), matrix.derived());
+  return Product<PermutationDerived, MatrixDerived, DefaultProduct>
+            (permutation.derived(), matrix.derived());
 }
 
 namespace internal {
 
 template<typename PermutationType, typename MatrixType, int Side, bool Transposed>
 struct traits<permut_matrix_product_retval<PermutationType, MatrixType, Side, Transposed> >
+  : traits<typename MatrixType::PlainObject>
 {
   typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject ReturnType;
 };
@@ -617,6 +622,8 @@ struct traits<Transpose<PermutationBase<Derived> > >
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
+// TODO: the specificties should be handled by the evaluator,
+// at the very least we should only specialize TransposeImpl
 template<typename Derived>
 class Transpose<PermutationBase<Derived> >
   : public EigenBase<Transpose<PermutationBase<Derived> > >
@@ -631,7 +638,6 @@ class Transpose<PermutationBase<Derived> >
     typedef typename Derived::DenseMatrixType DenseMatrixType;
     enum {
       Flags = Traits::Flags,
-      CoeffReadCost = Traits::CoeffReadCost,
       RowsAtCompileTime = Traits::RowsAtCompileTime,
       ColsAtCompileTime = Traits::ColsAtCompileTime,
       MaxRowsAtCompileTime = Traits::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
@@ -663,19 +669,19 @@ class Transpose<PermutationBase<Derived> >
     /** \returns the matrix with the inverse permutation applied to the columns.
       */
     template<typename OtherDerived> friend
-    inline const internal::permut_matrix_product_retval<PermutationType, OtherDerived, OnTheRight, true>
+    const Product<OtherDerived, Transpose, DefaultProduct>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& matrix, const Transpose& trPerm)
     {
-      return internal::permut_matrix_product_retval<PermutationType, OtherDerived, OnTheRight, true>(trPerm.m_permutation, matrix.derived());
+      return Product<OtherDerived, Transpose, DefaultProduct>(matrix.derived(), trPerm.derived());
     }
 
     /** \returns the matrix with the inverse permutation applied to the rows.
       */
     template<typename OtherDerived>
-    inline const internal::permut_matrix_product_retval<PermutationType, OtherDerived, OnTheLeft, true>
+    const Product<Transpose, OtherDerived, DefaultProduct>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& matrix) const
     {
-      return internal::permut_matrix_product_retval<PermutationType, OtherDerived, OnTheLeft, true>(m_permutation, matrix.derived());
+      return Product<Transpose, OtherDerived, DefaultProduct>(*this, matrix.derived());
     }
 
     const PermutationType& nestedPermutation() const { return m_permutation; }
@@ -690,6 +696,38 @@ const PermutationWrapper<const Derived> MatrixBase<Derived>::asPermutation() con
   return derived();
 }
 
+namespace internal {
+  
+// TODO currently a permutation matrix expression has the form PermutationMatrix or PermutationWrapper
+//      or their transpose; in the future shape should be defined by the expression traits
+template<int SizeAtCompileTime, int MaxSizeAtCompileTime, typename IndexType>
+struct evaluator_traits<PermutationMatrix<SizeAtCompileTime, MaxSizeAtCompileTime, IndexType> >
+{
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind<Dense>::Kind Kind;
+  typedef PermutationShape Shape;
+  static const int AssumeAliasing = 0;
+};
+
+template<typename IndicesType>
+struct evaluator_traits<PermutationWrapper<IndicesType> >
+{
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind<Dense>::Kind Kind;
+  typedef PermutationShape Shape;
+  static const int AssumeAliasing = 0;
+};
+
+template<typename Derived>
+struct evaluator_traits<Transpose<PermutationBase<Derived> > >
+{
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind<Dense>::Kind Kind;
+  typedef PermutationShape Shape;
+  static const int AssumeAliasing = 0;
+};
+
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<DenseShape,PermutationShape> { typedef EigenBase2EigenBase Kind; };
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_PERMUTATIONMATRIX_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/PlainObjectBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/PlainObjectBase.h
index 69f34bd3e..3b0e56445 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/PlainObjectBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/PlainObjectBase.h
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
     DenseStorage<Scalar, Base::MaxSizeAtCompileTime, Base::RowsAtCompileTime, Base::ColsAtCompileTime, Options> m_storage;
 
   public:
-    enum { NeedsToAlign = SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic && (internal::traits<Derived>::Flags & AlignedBit) != 0 };
+    enum { NeedsToAlign = SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic && (internal::traits<Derived>::EvaluatorFlags & AlignedBit) != 0 };
     EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW_IF(NeedsToAlign)
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -639,22 +639,17 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
       *
       * \internal
       */
+    // aliasing is dealt once in internall::call_assignment
+    // so at this stage we have to assume aliasing... and resising has to be done later.
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Derived& _set(const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
     {
-      _set_selector(other.derived(), typename internal::conditional<static_cast<bool>(int(OtherDerived::Flags) & EvalBeforeAssigningBit), internal::true_type, internal::false_type>::type());
+      internal::call_assignment(this->derived(), other.derived());
+      return this->derived();
       return this->derived();
     }
 
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _set_selector(const OtherDerived& other, const internal::true_type&) { _set_noalias(other.eval()); }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _set_selector(const OtherDerived& other, const internal::false_type&) { _set_noalias(other); }
-
     /** \internal Like _set() but additionally makes the assumption that no aliasing effect can happen (which
       * is the case when creating a new matrix) so one can enforce lazy evaluation.
       *
@@ -669,7 +664,8 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
       //_resize_to_match(other);
       // the 'false' below means to enforce lazy evaluation. We don't use lazyAssign() because
       // it wouldn't allow to copy a row-vector into a column-vector.
-      return internal::assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,false>::run(this->derived(), other.derived());
+      internal::call_assignment_no_alias(this->derived(), other.derived(), internal::assign_op<Scalar>());
+      return this->derived();
     }
 
     template<typename T0, typename T1>
@@ -704,9 +700,12 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
       m_storage.data()[1] = Scalar(val1);
     }
 
+    // The argument is convertible to the Index type and we either have a non 1x1 Matrix, or a dynamic-sized Array,
+    // then the argument is meant to be the size of the object.
     template<typename T>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(Index size, typename internal::enable_if<Base::SizeAtCompileTime!=1 || !internal::is_convertible<T, Scalar>::value,T>::type* = 0)
+    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(Index size, typename internal::enable_if<    (Base::SizeAtCompileTime!=1 || !internal::is_convertible<T, Scalar>::value)
+                                                                              && ((!internal::is_same<typename internal::traits<Derived>::XprKind,ArrayXpr>::value || Base::SizeAtCompileTime==Dynamic)),T>::type* = 0)
     {
       // NOTE MSVC 2008 complains if we directly put bool(NumTraits<T>::IsInteger) as the EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT argument.
       const bool is_integer = NumTraits<T>::IsInteger;
@@ -714,6 +713,8 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
                           FLOATING_POINT_ARGUMENT_PASSED__INTEGER_WAS_EXPECTED)
       resize(size);
     }
+    
+    // We have a 1x1 matrix/array => the argument is interpreted as the value of the unique coefficient (case where scalar type can be implicitely converted)
     template<typename T>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const Scalar& val0, typename internal::enable_if<Base::SizeAtCompileTime==1 && internal::is_convertible<T, Scalar>::value,T>::type* = 0)
@@ -722,6 +723,7 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
       m_storage.data()[0] = val0;
     }
     
+    // We have a 1x1 matrix/array => the argument is interpreted as the value of the unique coefficient (case where scalar type match the index type)
     template<typename T>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const Index& val0,
@@ -734,18 +736,21 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
       m_storage.data()[0] = Scalar(val0);
     }
 
+    // Initialize a fixed size matrix from a pointer to raw data
     template<typename T>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const Scalar* data){
       this->_set_noalias(ConstMapType(data));
     }
 
+    // Initialize an arbitrary matrix from a dense expression
     template<typename T, typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other){
       this->_set_noalias(other);
     }
 
+    // Initialize an arbitrary matrix from a generic Eigen expression
     template<typename T, typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const EigenBase<OtherDerived>& other){
@@ -766,6 +771,31 @@ class PlainObjectBase : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Derived>::type
     {
       this->derived() = r;
     }
+    
+    // For fixed -size arrays:
+    template<typename T>
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const Scalar& val0,
+                                    typename internal::enable_if<    Base::SizeAtCompileTime!=Dynamic
+                                                                  && Base::SizeAtCompileTime!=1
+                                                                  && internal::is_convertible<T, Scalar>::value
+                                                                  && internal::is_same<typename internal::traits<Derived>::XprKind,ArrayXpr>::value,T>::type* = 0)
+    {
+      Base::setConstant(val0);
+    }
+    
+    template<typename T>
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _init1(const Index& val0,
+                                    typename internal::enable_if<    (!internal::is_same<Index,Scalar>::value)
+                                                                  && (internal::is_same<Index,T>::value)
+                                                                  && Base::SizeAtCompileTime!=Dynamic
+                                                                  && Base::SizeAtCompileTime!=1
+                                                                  && internal::is_convertible<T, Scalar>::value
+                                                                  && internal::is_same<typename internal::traits<Derived>::XprKind,ArrayXpr>::value,T*>::type* = 0)
+    {
+      Base::setConstant(val0);
+    }
 
     template<typename MatrixTypeA, typename MatrixTypeB, bool SwapPointers>
     friend struct internal::matrix_swap_impl;
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Product.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Product.h
index 5d3789be7..ae64d5200 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Product.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Product.h
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
 
 namespace Eigen {
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs> class Product;
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename StorageKind> class ProductImpl;
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option, typename StorageKind> class ProductImpl;
 
 /** \class Product
   * \ingroup Core_Module
@@ -24,38 +23,93 @@ template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename StorageKind> class ProductImpl;
   * \param Rhs the type of the right-hand side expression
   *
   * This class represents an expression of the product of two arbitrary matrices.
+  * 
+  * The other template parameters are:
+  * \tparam Option     can be DefaultProduct or LazyProduct
   *
   */
 
-// Use ProductReturnType to get correct traits, in particular vectorization flags
+
 namespace internal {
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<Product<Lhs, Rhs> >
-  : traits<typename ProductReturnType<Lhs, Rhs>::Type>
-{ 
-  // We want A+B*C to be of type Product<Matrix, Sum> and not Product<Matrix, Matrix>
-  // TODO: This flag should eventually go in a separate evaluator traits class
+
+// Determine the scalar of Product<Lhs, Rhs>. This is normally the same as Lhs::Scalar times
+// Rhs::Scalar, but product with permutation matrices inherit the scalar of the other factor.
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename LhsShape = typename evaluator_traits<Lhs>::Shape, 
+         typename RhsShape = typename evaluator_traits<Rhs>::Shape >
+struct product_result_scalar
+{
+  typedef typename scalar_product_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar>::ReturnType Scalar;
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RhsShape>
+struct product_result_scalar<Lhs, Rhs, PermutationShape, RhsShape>
+{
+  typedef typename Rhs::Scalar Scalar;
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename LhsShape>
+  struct product_result_scalar<Lhs, Rhs, LhsShape, PermutationShape>
+{
+  typedef typename Lhs::Scalar Scalar;
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option>
+struct traits<Product<Lhs, Rhs, Option> >
+{
+  typedef typename remove_all<Lhs>::type LhsCleaned;
+  typedef typename remove_all<Rhs>::type RhsCleaned;
+  typedef traits<LhsCleaned> LhsTraits;
+  typedef traits<RhsCleaned> RhsTraits;
+  
+  typedef MatrixXpr XprKind;
+  
+  typedef typename product_result_scalar<LhsCleaned,RhsCleaned>::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename product_promote_storage_type<typename LhsTraits::StorageKind,
+                                                typename RhsTraits::StorageKind,
+                                                internal::product_type<Lhs,Rhs>::ret>::ret StorageKind;
+  typedef typename promote_index_type<typename LhsTraits::Index,
+                                         typename RhsTraits::Index>::type Index;
+  
   enum {
-    Flags = traits<typename ProductReturnType<Lhs, Rhs>::Type>::Flags & ~(EvalBeforeNestingBit | DirectAccessBit)
+    RowsAtCompileTime    = LhsTraits::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    ColsAtCompileTime    = RhsTraits::ColsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = LhsTraits::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxColsAtCompileTime = RhsTraits::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+    
+    // FIXME: only needed by GeneralMatrixMatrixTriangular
+    InnerSize = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(LhsTraits::ColsAtCompileTime, RhsTraits::RowsAtCompileTime),
+    
+    // The storage order is somewhat arbitrary here. The correct one will be determined through the evaluator.
+    Flags = (   (MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1 && MaxColsAtCompileTime!=1)
+             || ((LhsTraits::Flags&NoPreferredStorageOrderBit) && (RhsTraits::Flags&RowMajorBit))
+             || ((RhsTraits::Flags&NoPreferredStorageOrderBit) && (LhsTraits::Flags&RowMajorBit)) )
+          ? RowMajorBit : (MaxColsAtCompileTime==1 ? 0 : NoPreferredStorageOrderBit)
   };
 };
+
 } // end namespace internal
 
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class Product : public ProductImpl<Lhs,Rhs,typename internal::promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
-                                                                            typename internal::traits<Rhs>::StorageKind>::ret>
+template<typename _Lhs, typename _Rhs, int Option>
+class Product : public ProductImpl<_Lhs,_Rhs,Option,
+                                   typename internal::product_promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<_Lhs>::StorageKind,
+                                                                                   typename internal::traits<_Rhs>::StorageKind,
+                                                                                   internal::product_type<_Lhs,_Rhs>::ret>::ret>
 {
   public:
     
+    typedef _Lhs Lhs;
+    typedef _Rhs Rhs;
+    
     typedef typename ProductImpl<
-        Lhs, Rhs,
-        typename internal::promote_storage_type<typename Lhs::StorageKind,
-                                                typename Rhs::StorageKind>::ret>::Base Base;
+        Lhs, Rhs, Option,
+        typename internal::product_promote_storage_type<typename internal::traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
+                                                        typename internal::traits<Rhs>::StorageKind,
+                                                        internal::product_type<Lhs,Rhs>::ret>::ret>::Base Base;
     EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Product)
 
-    typedef typename Lhs::Nested LhsNested;
-    typedef typename Rhs::Nested RhsNested;
+    typedef typename internal::nested<Lhs>::type LhsNested;
+    typedef typename internal::nested<Rhs>::type RhsNested;
     typedef typename internal::remove_all<LhsNested>::type LhsNestedCleaned;
     typedef typename internal::remove_all<RhsNested>::type RhsNestedCleaned;
 
@@ -78,14 +132,77 @@ class Product : public ProductImpl<Lhs,Rhs,typename internal::promote_storage_ty
     RhsNested m_rhs;
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class ProductImpl<Lhs,Rhs,Dense> : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Product<Lhs,Rhs> >::type
+namespace internal {
+  
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option, int ProductTag = internal::product_type<Lhs,Rhs>::ret>
+class dense_product_base
+ : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Product<Lhs,Rhs,Option> >::type
+{};
+
+/** Convertion to scalar for inner-products */
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option>
+class dense_product_base<Lhs, Rhs, Option, InnerProduct>
+ : public internal::dense_xpr_base<Product<Lhs,Rhs,Option> >::type
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,Option> ProductXpr;
+  typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<ProductXpr>::type Base;
+public:
+  using Base::derived;
+  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+  
+  operator const Scalar() const
+  {
+    return typename internal::evaluator<ProductXpr>::type(derived()).coeff(0,0);
+  }
+};
+
+} // namespace internal
+
+// Generic API dispatcher
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option, typename StorageKind>
+class ProductImpl : public internal::generic_xpr_base<Product<Lhs,Rhs,Option>, MatrixXpr, StorageKind>::type
 {
-    typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs> Derived;
   public:
+    typedef typename internal::generic_xpr_base<Product<Lhs,Rhs,Option>, MatrixXpr, StorageKind>::type Base;
+};
 
-    typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<Product<Lhs, Rhs> >::type Base;
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option>
+class ProductImpl<Lhs,Rhs,Option,Dense>
+  : public internal::dense_product_base<Lhs,Rhs,Option>
+{
+    typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, Option> Derived;
+    
+  public:
+    
+    typedef typename internal::dense_product_base<Lhs, Rhs, Option> Base;
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived)
+  protected:
+    enum {
+      IsOneByOne = (RowsAtCompileTime == 1 || RowsAtCompileTime == Dynamic) && 
+                   (ColsAtCompileTime == 1 || ColsAtCompileTime == Dynamic),
+      EnableCoeff = IsOneByOne || Option==LazyProduct
+    };
+    
+  public:
+  
+    Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const
+    {
+      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(EnableCoeff, THIS_METHOD_IS_ONLY_FOR_INNER_OR_LAZY_PRODUCTS);
+      eigen_assert( (Option==LazyProduct) || (this->rows() == 1 && this->cols() == 1) );
+      
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).coeff(row,col);
+    }
+
+    Scalar coeff(Index i) const
+    {
+      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT(EnableCoeff, THIS_METHOD_IS_ONLY_FOR_INNER_OR_LAZY_PRODUCTS);
+      eigen_assert( (Option==LazyProduct) || (this->rows() == 1 && this->cols() == 1) );
+      
+      return typename internal::evaluator<Derived>::type(derived()).coeff(i);
+    }
+    
+  
 };
 
 /***************************************************************************
@@ -102,6 +219,15 @@ prod(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
   return Product<Lhs,Rhs>(lhs,rhs);
 }
 
+/** \internal used to test the evaluator only
+  */
+template<typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
+const Product<Lhs,Rhs,LazyProduct>
+lazyprod(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+{
+  return Product<Lhs,Rhs,LazyProduct>(lhs,rhs);
+}
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_PRODUCT_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h
index 483914a9b..050343b2d 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/ProductBase.h
@@ -12,253 +12,6 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-/** \class ProductBase
-  * \ingroup Core_Module
-  *
-  */
-
-namespace internal {
-template<typename Derived, typename _Lhs, typename _Rhs>
-struct traits<ProductBase<Derived,_Lhs,_Rhs> >
-{
-  typedef MatrixXpr XprKind;
-  typedef typename remove_all<_Lhs>::type Lhs;
-  typedef typename remove_all<_Rhs>::type Rhs;
-  typedef typename scalar_product_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar>::ReturnType Scalar;
-  typedef typename promote_storage_type<typename traits<Lhs>::StorageKind,
-                                           typename traits<Rhs>::StorageKind>::ret StorageKind;
-  typedef typename promote_index_type<typename traits<Lhs>::Index,
-                                         typename traits<Rhs>::Index>::type Index;
-  enum {
-    RowsAtCompileTime = traits<Lhs>::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    ColsAtCompileTime = traits<Rhs>::ColsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = traits<Lhs>::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
-    MaxColsAtCompileTime = traits<Rhs>::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-    Flags = (MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1 ? RowMajorBit : 0)
-          | EvalBeforeNestingBit | EvalBeforeAssigningBit | NestByRefBit,
-                  // Note that EvalBeforeNestingBit and NestByRefBit
-                  // are not used in practice because nested is overloaded for products
-    CoeffReadCost = 0 // FIXME why is it needed ?
-  };
-};
-}
-
-#define EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived) \
-  typedef ProductBase<Derived, Lhs, Rhs > Base; \
-  EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived) \
-  typedef typename Base::LhsNested LhsNested; \
-  typedef typename Base::_LhsNested _LhsNested; \
-  typedef typename Base::LhsBlasTraits LhsBlasTraits; \
-  typedef typename Base::ActualLhsType ActualLhsType; \
-  typedef typename Base::_ActualLhsType _ActualLhsType; \
-  typedef typename Base::RhsNested RhsNested; \
-  typedef typename Base::_RhsNested _RhsNested; \
-  typedef typename Base::RhsBlasTraits RhsBlasTraits; \
-  typedef typename Base::ActualRhsType ActualRhsType; \
-  typedef typename Base::_ActualRhsType _ActualRhsType; \
-  using Base::m_lhs; \
-  using Base::m_rhs;
-
-template<typename Derived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class ProductBase : public MatrixBase<Derived>
-{
-  public:
-    typedef MatrixBase<Derived> Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(ProductBase)
-    
-    typedef typename Lhs::Nested LhsNested;
-    typedef typename internal::remove_all<LhsNested>::type _LhsNested;
-    typedef internal::blas_traits<_LhsNested> LhsBlasTraits;
-    typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
-    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualLhsType>::type _ActualLhsType;
-    typedef typename internal::traits<Lhs>::Scalar LhsScalar;
-
-    typedef typename Rhs::Nested RhsNested;
-    typedef typename internal::remove_all<RhsNested>::type _RhsNested;
-    typedef internal::blas_traits<_RhsNested> RhsBlasTraits;
-    typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualRhsType>::type _ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename internal::traits<Rhs>::Scalar RhsScalar;
-
-    // Diagonal of a product: no need to evaluate the arguments because they are going to be evaluated only once
-    typedef CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, 0> FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType;
-
-  public:
-
-    typedef typename Base::PlainObject PlainObject;
-
-    ProductBase(const Lhs& a_lhs, const Rhs& a_rhs)
-      : m_lhs(a_lhs), m_rhs(a_rhs)
-    {
-      eigen_assert(a_lhs.cols() == a_rhs.rows()
-        && "invalid matrix product"
-        && "if you wanted a coeff-wise or a dot product use the respective explicit functions");
-    }
-
-    inline Index rows() const { return m_lhs.rows(); }
-    inline Index cols() const { return m_rhs.cols(); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void evalTo(Dest& dst) const { dst.setZero(); scaleAndAddTo(dst,Scalar(1)); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void addTo(Dest& dst) const { scaleAndAddTo(dst,Scalar(1)); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void subTo(Dest& dst) const { scaleAndAddTo(dst,Scalar(-1)); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const { derived().scaleAndAddTo(dst,alpha); }
-
-    const _LhsNested& lhs() const { return m_lhs; }
-    const _RhsNested& rhs() const { return m_rhs; }
-
-    // Implicit conversion to the nested type (trigger the evaluation of the product)
-    operator const PlainObject& () const
-    {
-      m_result.resize(m_lhs.rows(), m_rhs.cols());
-      derived().evalTo(m_result);
-      return m_result;
-    }
-
-    const Diagonal<const FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType,0> diagonal() const
-    { return FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType(m_lhs, m_rhs); }
-
-    template<int Index>
-    const Diagonal<FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType,Index> diagonal() const
-    { return FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType(m_lhs, m_rhs); }
-
-    const Diagonal<FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType,Dynamic> diagonal(Index index) const
-    { return FullyLazyCoeffBaseProductType(m_lhs, m_rhs).diagonal(index); }
-
-    // restrict coeff accessors to 1x1 expressions. No need to care about mutators here since this isn't an Lvalue expression
-    typename Base::CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SIZE_1x1(Derived)
-      eigen_assert(this->rows() == 1 && this->cols() == 1);
-      Matrix<Scalar,1,1> result = *this;
-      return result.coeff(row,col);
-    }
-
-    typename Base::CoeffReturnType coeff(Index i) const
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SIZE_1x1(Derived)
-      eigen_assert(this->rows() == 1 && this->cols() == 1);
-      Matrix<Scalar,1,1> result = *this;
-      return result.coeff(i);
-    }
-
-    const Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SIZE_1x1(Derived)
-      eigen_assert(this->rows() == 1 && this->cols() == 1);
-      return derived().coeffRef(row,col);
-    }
-
-    const Scalar& coeffRef(Index i) const
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SIZE_1x1(Derived)
-      eigen_assert(this->rows() == 1 && this->cols() == 1);
-      return derived().coeffRef(i);
-    }
-
-  protected:
-
-    LhsNested m_lhs;
-    RhsNested m_rhs;
-
-    mutable PlainObject m_result;
-};
-
-// here we need to overload the nested rule for products
-// such that the nested type is a const reference to a plain matrix
-namespace internal {
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Mode, int N, typename PlainObject>
-struct nested<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,Mode>, N, PlainObject>
-{
-  typedef PlainObject const& type;
-};
-}
-
-template<typename NestedProduct>
-class ScaledProduct;
-
-// Note that these two operator* functions are not defined as member
-// functions of ProductBase, because, otherwise we would have to
-// define all overloads defined in MatrixBase. Furthermore, Using
-// "using Base::operator*" would not work with MSVC.
-//
-// Also note that here we accept any compatible scalar types
-template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
-const ScaledProduct<Derived>
-operator*(const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod, const typename Derived::Scalar& x)
-{ return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
-
-template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
-typename internal::enable_if<!internal::is_same<typename Derived::Scalar,typename Derived::RealScalar>::value,
-                      const ScaledProduct<Derived> >::type
-operator*(const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod, const typename Derived::RealScalar& x)
-{ return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
-
-
-template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
-const ScaledProduct<Derived>
-operator*(const typename Derived::Scalar& x,const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod)
-{ return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
-
-template<typename Derived,typename Lhs,typename Rhs>
-typename internal::enable_if<!internal::is_same<typename Derived::Scalar,typename Derived::RealScalar>::value,
-                      const ScaledProduct<Derived> >::type
-operator*(const typename Derived::RealScalar& x,const ProductBase<Derived,Lhs,Rhs>& prod)
-{ return ScaledProduct<Derived>(prod.derived(), x); }
-
-namespace internal {
-template<typename NestedProduct>
-struct traits<ScaledProduct<NestedProduct> >
- : traits<ProductBase<ScaledProduct<NestedProduct>,
-                         typename NestedProduct::_LhsNested,
-                         typename NestedProduct::_RhsNested> >
-{
-  typedef typename traits<NestedProduct>::StorageKind StorageKind;
-};
-}
-
-template<typename NestedProduct>
-class ScaledProduct
-  : public ProductBase<ScaledProduct<NestedProduct>,
-                       typename NestedProduct::_LhsNested,
-                       typename NestedProduct::_RhsNested>
-{
-  public:
-    typedef ProductBase<ScaledProduct<NestedProduct>,
-                       typename NestedProduct::_LhsNested,
-                       typename NestedProduct::_RhsNested> Base;
-    typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
-    typedef typename Base::PlainObject PlainObject;
-//     EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(ScaledProduct)
-
-    ScaledProduct(const NestedProduct& prod, const Scalar& x)
-    : Base(prod.lhs(),prod.rhs()), m_prod(prod), m_alpha(x) {}
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void evalTo(Dest& dst) const { dst.setZero(); scaleAndAddTo(dst, Scalar(1)); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void addTo(Dest& dst) const { scaleAndAddTo(dst, Scalar(1)); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void subTo(Dest& dst) const { scaleAndAddTo(dst, Scalar(-1)); }
-
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& a_alpha) const { m_prod.derived().scaleAndAddTo(dst,a_alpha * m_alpha); }
-
-    const Scalar& alpha() const { return m_alpha; }
-    
-  protected:
-    const NestedProduct& m_prod;
-    Scalar m_alpha;
-};
-
 /** \internal
   * Overloaded to perform an efficient C = (A*B).lazy() */
 template<typename Derived>
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/ProductEvaluators.h b/Eigen/src/Core/ProductEvaluators.h
index 855914f2e..f880e7696 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/ProductEvaluators.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/ProductEvaluators.h
@@ -16,95 +16,344 @@
 namespace Eigen {
   
 namespace internal {
+
+/** \internal
+  * Evaluator of a product expression.
+  * Since products require special treatments to handle all possible cases,
+  * we simply deffer the evaluation logic to a product_evaluator class
+  * which offers more partial specialization possibilities.
+  * 
+  * \sa class product_evaluator
+  */
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Options>
+struct evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, Options> > 
+ : public product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, Options> >
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, Options> XprType;
+  typedef product_evaluator<XprType> Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
   
-// We can evaluate the product either all at once, like GeneralProduct and its evalTo() function, or
-// traverse the matrix coefficient by coefficient, like CoeffBasedProduct.  Use the existing logic
-// in ProductReturnType to decide.
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr) : Base(xpr) {}
+};
+ 
+// Catch scalar * ( A * B ) and transform it to (A*scalar) * B
+// TODO we should apply that rule only if that's really helpful
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct evaluator<CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<Scalar>,  const Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>  > > 
+ : public evaluator<Product<CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<Scalar>,const Lhs>, Rhs, DefaultProduct> >
+{
+  typedef CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<Scalar>, const Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct> > XprType;
+  typedef evaluator<Product<CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<Scalar>,const Lhs>, Rhs, DefaultProduct> > Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
+  
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr)
+    : Base(xpr.functor().m_other * xpr.nestedExpression().lhs() * xpr.nestedExpression().rhs())
+  {}
+};
 
-template<typename XprType, typename ProductType>
-struct product_evaluator_dispatcher;
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int DiagIndex>
+struct evaluator<Diagonal<const Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>, DiagIndex> > 
+ : public evaluator<Diagonal<const Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, DiagIndex> >
+{
+  typedef Diagonal<const Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>, DiagIndex> XprType;
+  typedef evaluator<Diagonal<const Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, DiagIndex> > Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
+
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr)
+    : Base(Diagonal<const Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, DiagIndex>(
+        Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>(xpr.nestedExpression().lhs(), xpr.nestedExpression().rhs()),
+        xpr.index() ))
+  {}
+};
+
+
+// Helper class to perform a matrix product with the destination at hand.
+// Depending on the sizes of the factors, there are different evaluation strategies
+// as controlled by internal::product_type.
+template< typename Lhs, typename Rhs,
+          typename LhsShape = typename evaluator_traits<Lhs>::Shape,
+          typename RhsShape = typename evaluator_traits<Rhs>::Shape,
+          int ProductType = internal::product_type<Lhs,Rhs>::value>
+struct generic_product_impl;
 
 template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct evaluator_impl<Product<Lhs, Rhs> >
-  : product_evaluator_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, typename ProductReturnType<Lhs, Rhs>::Type> 
+struct evaluator_traits<Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct> > 
+ : evaluator_traits_base<Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct> >
 {
-  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs> XprType;
-  typedef product_evaluator_dispatcher<XprType, typename ProductReturnType<Lhs, Rhs>::Type> Base;
+  enum { AssumeAliasing = 1 };
+};
 
-  evaluator_impl(const XprType& xpr) : Base(xpr) 
-  { }
+// This is the default evaluator implementation for products:
+// It creates a temporary and call generic_product_impl
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag, typename LhsShape, typename RhsShape>
+struct product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>, ProductTag, LhsShape, RhsShape, typename traits<Lhs>::Scalar, typename traits<Rhs>::Scalar> 
+  : public evaluator<typename Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>::PlainObject>::type
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct> XprType;
+//   enum {
+//     CoeffReadCost = 0 // FIXME why is it needed? (this was already the case before the evaluators, see traits<ProductBase>)
+//   };
+  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type Base;
+
+  product_evaluator(const XprType& xpr)
+    : m_result(xpr.rows(), xpr.cols())
+  {
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    
+// FIXME shall we handle nested_eval here?
+//     typedef typename internal::nested_eval<Lhs,Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime>::type LhsNested;
+//     typedef typename internal::nested_eval<Rhs,Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime>::type RhsNested;
+//     typedef typename internal::remove_all<LhsNested>::type LhsNestedCleaned;
+//     typedef typename internal::remove_all<RhsNested>::type RhsNestedCleaned;
+//     
+//     const LhsNested lhs(xpr.lhs());
+//     const RhsNested rhs(xpr.rhs());
+//   
+//     generic_product_impl<LhsNestedCleaned, RhsNestedCleaned>::evalTo(m_result, lhs, rhs);
+
+    generic_product_impl<Lhs, Rhs, LhsShape, RhsShape, ProductTag>::evalTo(m_result, xpr.lhs(), xpr.rhs());
+  }
+  
+protected:  
+  PlainObject m_result;
 };
 
-template<typename XprType, typename ProductType>
-struct product_evaluator_traits_dispatcher;
+// Dense = Product
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct>, internal::assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Dense, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    // FIXME shall we handle nested_eval here?
+    generic_product_impl<Lhs, Rhs>::evalTo(dst, src.lhs(), src.rhs());
+  }
+};
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct evaluator_traits<Product<Lhs, Rhs> >
-  : product_evaluator_traits_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, typename ProductReturnType<Lhs, Rhs>::Type> 
-{ 
-  static const int AssumeAliasing = 1;
+// Dense += Product
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct>, internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Dense, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::add_assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    // FIXME shall we handle nested_eval here?
+    generic_product_impl<Lhs, Rhs>::addTo(dst, src.lhs(), src.rhs());
+  }
 };
 
-// Case 1: Evaluate all at once
-//
-// We can view the GeneralProduct class as a part of the product evaluator. 
-// Four sub-cases: InnerProduct, OuterProduct, GemmProduct and GemvProduct.
-// InnerProduct is special because GeneralProduct does not have an evalTo() method in this case.
+// Dense -= Product
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct>, internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Dense, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    // FIXME shall we handle nested_eval here?
+    generic_product_impl<Lhs, Rhs>::subTo(dst, src.lhs(), src.rhs());
+  }
+};
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct product_evaluator_traits_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, InnerProduct> > 
+
+// Dense ?= scalar * Product
+// TODO we should apply that rule if that's really helpful
+// for instance, this is not good for inner products
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename AssignFunc, typename Scalar, typename ScalarBis>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<ScalarBis>,
+                                           const Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> >, AssignFunc, Dense2Dense, Scalar>
 {
-  static const int HasEvalTo = 0;
+  typedef CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<ScalarBis>,
+                       const Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> > SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const AssignFunc& func)
+  {
+    // TODO use operator* instead of prod() once we have made enough progress
+    call_assignment(dst.noalias(), prod(src.functor().m_other * src.nestedExpression().lhs(), src.nestedExpression().rhs()), func);
+  }
 };
 
+
 template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct product_evaluator_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, InnerProduct> > 
-  : public evaluator<typename Product<Lhs, Rhs>::PlainObject>::type
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,InnerProduct>
 {
-  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs> XprType;
-  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
-  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type evaluator_base;
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void evalTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    dst.coeffRef(0,0) = (lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs)).sum();
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void addTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    dst.coeffRef(0,0) += (lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs)).sum();
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void subTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  { dst.coeffRef(0,0) -= (lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs)).sum(); }
+};
+
 
-  // TODO: Computation is too early (?)
-  product_evaluator_dispatcher(const XprType& xpr) : evaluator_base(m_result)
+/***********************************************************************
+*  Implementation of outer dense * dense vector product
+***********************************************************************/
+
+// Column major result
+template<typename Dst, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Func>
+EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void outer_product_selector_run(Dst& dst, const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, const Func& func, const false_type&)
+{
+  typedef typename Dst::Index Index;
+  // FIXME make sure lhs is sequentially stored
+  // FIXME not very good if rhs is real and lhs complex while alpha is real too
+  // FIXME we should probably build an evaluator for dst and rhs
+  const Index cols = dst.cols();
+  for (Index j=0; j<cols; ++j)
+    func(dst.col(j), rhs.coeff(0,j) * lhs);
+}
+
+// Row major result
+template<typename Dst, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Func>
+EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void outer_product_selector_run(Dst& dst, const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, const Func& func, const true_type&) {
+  typedef typename Dst::Index Index;
+  // FIXME make sure rhs is sequentially stored
+  // FIXME not very good if lhs is real and rhs complex while alpha is real too
+  // FIXME we should probably build an evaluator for dst and lhs
+  const Index rows = dst.rows();
+  for (Index i=0; i<rows; ++i)
+    func(dst.row(i), lhs.coeff(i,0) * rhs);
+}
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,OuterProduct>
+{
+  template<typename T> struct IsRowMajor : internal::conditional<(int(T::Flags)&RowMajorBit), internal::true_type, internal::false_type>::type {};
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  // TODO it would be nice to be able to exploit our *_assign_op functors for that purpose
+  struct set  { template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const { dst.const_cast_derived()  = src; } };
+  struct add  { template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const { dst.const_cast_derived() += src; } };
+  struct sub  { template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const { dst.const_cast_derived() -= src; } };
+  struct adds {
+    Scalar m_scale;
+    adds(const Scalar& s) : m_scale(s) {}
+    template<typename Dst, typename Src> void operator()(const Dst& dst, const Src& src) const {
+      dst.const_cast_derived() += m_scale * src;
+    }
+  };
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void evalTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
   {
-    m_result.coeffRef(0,0) = (xpr.lhs().transpose().cwiseProduct(xpr.rhs())).sum();
+    internal::outer_product_selector_run(dst, lhs, rhs, set(), IsRowMajor<Dst>());
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void addTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    internal::outer_product_selector_run(dst, lhs, rhs, add(), IsRowMajor<Dst>());
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void subTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    internal::outer_product_selector_run(dst, lhs, rhs, sub(), IsRowMajor<Dst>());
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void scaleAndAddTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
+  {
+    internal::outer_product_selector_run(dst, lhs, rhs, adds(alpha), IsRowMajor<Dst>());
   }
   
-protected:  
-  PlainObject m_result;
 };
 
-// For the other three subcases, simply call the evalTo() method of GeneralProduct
-// TODO: GeneralProduct should take evaluators, not expression objects.
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductType>
-struct product_evaluator_traits_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, ProductType> > 
+// This base class provides default implementations for evalTo, addTo, subTo, in terms of scaleAndAddTo
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Derived>
+struct generic_product_impl_base
 {
-  static const int HasEvalTo = 1;
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void evalTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  { dst.setZero(); scaleAndAddTo(dst, lhs, rhs, Scalar(1)); }
+
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void addTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  { scaleAndAddTo(dst,lhs, rhs, Scalar(1)); }
+
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void subTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  { scaleAndAddTo(dst, lhs, rhs, Scalar(-1)); }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
+  { Derived::scaleAndAddTo(dst,lhs,rhs,alpha); }
+
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductType>
-struct product_evaluator_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, ProductType> > 
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,GemvProduct>
+  : generic_product_impl_base<Lhs,Rhs,generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,GemvProduct> >
 {
-  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs> XprType;
-  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
-  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type evaluator_base;
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  enum { Side = Lhs::IsVectorAtCompileTime ? OnTheLeft : OnTheRight };
+  typedef typename internal::conditional<int(Side)==OnTheRight,Lhs,Rhs>::type MatrixType;
+
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
+  {
+    internal::gemv_dense_sense_selector<Side,
+                            (int(MatrixType::Flags)&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
+                            bool(internal::blas_traits<MatrixType>::HasUsableDirectAccess)
+                           >::run(lhs, rhs, dst, alpha);
+  }
+};
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,CoeffBasedProductMode> 
+{
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
   
-  product_evaluator_dispatcher(const XprType& xpr) : m_xpr(xpr)
-  { }
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void evalTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    // TODO: use the following instead of calling call_assignment, same for the other methods
+    // dst = lazyprod(lhs,rhs);
+    call_assignment(dst, lazyprod(lhs,rhs), internal::assign_op<Scalar>());
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void addTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    // dst += lazyprod(lhs,rhs);
+    call_assignment(dst, lazyprod(lhs,rhs), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
+  }
   
-  template<typename DstEvaluatorType, typename DstXprType>
-  void evalTo(DstEvaluatorType /* not used */, DstXprType& dst) const
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static inline void subTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
   {
-    dst.resize(m_xpr.rows(), m_xpr.cols());
-    GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, ProductType>(m_xpr.lhs(), m_xpr.rhs()).evalTo(dst);
+    // dst -= lazyprod(lhs,rhs);
+    call_assignment(dst, lazyprod(lhs,rhs), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
   }
   
-protected: 
-  const XprType& m_xpr;
+//   template<typename Dst>
+//   static inline void scaleAndAddTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
+//   { dst += alpha * lazyprod(lhs,rhs); }
 };
 
+// This specialization enforces the use of a coefficient-based evaluation strategy
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,LazyCoeffBasedProductMode>
+  : generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,CoeffBasedProductMode> {};
+
 // Case 2: Evaluate coeff by coeff
 //
 // This is mostly taken from CoeffBasedProduct.h
@@ -117,65 +366,116 @@ struct etor_product_coeff_impl;
 template<int StorageOrder, int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
 struct etor_product_packet_impl;
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename LhsNested, typename RhsNested, int Flags>
-struct product_evaluator_traits_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, Flags> >
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, ProductTag, DenseShape, DenseShape, typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar > 
+    : evaluator_base<Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct> >
 {
-  static const int HasEvalTo = 0;
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename LhsNested, typename RhsNested, int Flags>
-struct product_evaluator_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, Flags> >
-  : evaluator_impl_base<Product<Lhs, Rhs> >
-{
-  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs> XprType;
-  typedef CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, Flags> CoeffBasedProductType;
-
-  product_evaluator_dispatcher(const XprType& xpr) 
-    : m_lhsImpl(xpr.lhs()), 
-      m_rhsImpl(xpr.rhs()),  
-      m_innerDim(xpr.lhs().cols())
-  { }
-
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct> XprType;
   typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
   typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar;
   typedef typename XprType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
   typedef typename XprType::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
   typedef typename XprType::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
 
+  product_evaluator(const XprType& xpr) 
+    : m_lhs(xpr.lhs()),
+      m_rhs(xpr.rhs()),
+      m_lhsImpl(m_lhs),     // FIXME the creation of the evaluator objects should result in a no-op, but check that!
+      m_rhsImpl(m_rhs),     //       Moreover, they are only useful for the packet path, so we could completely disable them when not needed,
+                            //       or perhaps declare them on the fly on the packet method... We have experiment to check what's best.
+      m_innerDim(xpr.lhs().cols())
+  { }
+
   // Everything below here is taken from CoeffBasedProduct.h
 
+  typedef typename internal::nested_eval<Lhs,Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime>::type LhsNested;
+  typedef typename internal::nested_eval<Rhs,Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime>::type RhsNested;
+  
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<LhsNested>::type LhsNestedCleaned;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<RhsNested>::type RhsNestedCleaned;
+
+  typedef typename evaluator<LhsNestedCleaned>::type LhsEtorType;
+  typedef typename evaluator<RhsNestedCleaned>::type RhsEtorType;
+  
   enum {
-    RowsAtCompileTime = traits<CoeffBasedProductType>::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    RowsAtCompileTime = LhsNestedCleaned::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    ColsAtCompileTime = RhsNestedCleaned::ColsAtCompileTime,
+    InnerSize = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(LhsNestedCleaned::ColsAtCompileTime, RhsNestedCleaned::RowsAtCompileTime),
+    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = LhsNestedCleaned::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxColsAtCompileTime = RhsNestedCleaned::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+      
     PacketSize = packet_traits<Scalar>::size,
-    InnerSize  = traits<CoeffBasedProductType>::InnerSize,
-    CoeffReadCost = traits<CoeffBasedProductType>::CoeffReadCost,
+    
+    LhsCoeffReadCost = LhsEtorType::CoeffReadCost,
+    RhsCoeffReadCost = RhsEtorType::CoeffReadCost,
+    CoeffReadCost = (InnerSize == Dynamic || LhsCoeffReadCost==Dynamic || RhsCoeffReadCost==Dynamic || NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost==Dynamic || NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost==Dynamic) ? Dynamic
+                  : InnerSize * (NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost + LhsCoeffReadCost + RhsCoeffReadCost)
+                    + (InnerSize - 1) * NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost,
+
     Unroll = CoeffReadCost != Dynamic && CoeffReadCost <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT,
-    CanVectorizeInner = traits<CoeffBasedProductType>::CanVectorizeInner
+    
+    LhsFlags = LhsEtorType::Flags,
+    RhsFlags = RhsEtorType::Flags,
+    
+    LhsRowMajor = LhsFlags & RowMajorBit,
+    RhsRowMajor = RhsFlags & RowMajorBit,
+      
+    SameType = is_same<typename LhsNestedCleaned::Scalar,typename RhsNestedCleaned::Scalar>::value,
+
+    CanVectorizeRhs = RhsRowMajor && (RhsFlags & PacketAccessBit)
+                    && (ColsAtCompileTime == Dynamic
+                        || ( (ColsAtCompileTime % packet_traits<Scalar>::size) == 0
+                            && (RhsFlags&AlignedBit)
+                            )
+                        ),
+
+    CanVectorizeLhs = (!LhsRowMajor) && (LhsFlags & PacketAccessBit)
+                    && (RowsAtCompileTime == Dynamic
+                        || ( (RowsAtCompileTime % packet_traits<Scalar>::size) == 0
+                            && (LhsFlags&AlignedBit)
+                            )
+                        ),
+
+    EvalToRowMajor = (MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1&&MaxColsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 1
+                    : (MaxColsAtCompileTime==1&&MaxRowsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 0
+                    : (RhsRowMajor && !CanVectorizeLhs),
+
+    Flags = ((unsigned int)(LhsFlags | RhsFlags) & HereditaryBits & ~RowMajorBit)
+          | (EvalToRowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0)
+          | (CanVectorizeLhs ? (LhsFlags & AlignedBit) : 0)
+          | (CanVectorizeRhs ? (RhsFlags & AlignedBit) : 0)
+          // TODO enable vectorization for mixed types
+          | (SameType && (CanVectorizeLhs || CanVectorizeRhs) ? PacketAccessBit : 0),
+          
+    /* CanVectorizeInner deserves special explanation. It does not affect the product flags. It is not used outside
+    * of Product. If the Product itself is not a packet-access expression, there is still a chance that the inner
+    * loop of the product might be vectorized. This is the meaning of CanVectorizeInner. Since it doesn't affect
+    * the Flags, it is safe to make this value depend on ActualPacketAccessBit, that doesn't affect the ABI.
+    */
+    CanVectorizeInner =    SameType
+                        && LhsRowMajor
+                        && (!RhsRowMajor)
+                        && (LhsFlags & RhsFlags & ActualPacketAccessBit)
+                        && (LhsFlags & RhsFlags & AlignedBit)
+                        && (InnerSize % packet_traits<Scalar>::size == 0)
   };
-
-  typedef typename evaluator<Lhs>::type LhsEtorType;
-  typedef typename evaluator<Rhs>::type RhsEtorType;
-  typedef etor_product_coeff_impl<CanVectorizeInner ? InnerVectorizedTraversal : DefaultTraversal,
-                                  Unroll ? InnerSize-1 : Dynamic,
-                                  LhsEtorType, RhsEtorType, Scalar> CoeffImpl;
-
+  
   const CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
   {
-    Scalar res;
-    CoeffImpl::run(row, col, m_lhsImpl, m_rhsImpl, m_innerDim, res);
-    return res;
+    // TODO check performance regression wrt to Eigen 3.2 which has special handling of this function
+    return (m_lhs.row(row).transpose().cwiseProduct( m_rhs.col(col) )).sum();
   }
 
   /* Allow index-based non-packet access. It is impossible though to allow index-based packed access,
    * which is why we don't set the LinearAccessBit.
+   * TODO: this seems possible when the result is a vector
    */
   const CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const
   {
-    Scalar res;
     const Index row = RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index;
     const Index col = RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0;
-    CoeffImpl::run(row, col, m_lhsImpl, m_rhsImpl, m_innerDim, res);
-    return res;
+    // TODO check performance regression wrt to Eigen 3.2 which has special handling of this function
+    return (m_lhs.row(row).transpose().cwiseProduct( m_rhs.col(col) )).sum();
   }
 
   template<int LoadMode>
@@ -183,224 +483,376 @@ struct product_evaluator_dispatcher<Product<Lhs, Rhs>, CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNest
   {
     PacketScalar res;
     typedef etor_product_packet_impl<Flags&RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
-				     Unroll ? InnerSize-1 : Dynamic,
-				     LhsEtorType, RhsEtorType, PacketScalar, LoadMode> PacketImpl;
+                                     Unroll ? InnerSize-1 : Dynamic,
+                                     LhsEtorType, RhsEtorType, PacketScalar, LoadMode> PacketImpl;
+
     PacketImpl::run(row, col, m_lhsImpl, m_rhsImpl, m_innerDim, res);
     return res;
   }
 
 protected:
-  typename evaluator<Lhs>::type m_lhsImpl;
-  typename evaluator<Rhs>::type m_rhsImpl;
+  const LhsNested m_lhs;
+  const RhsNested m_rhs;
+  
+  LhsEtorType m_lhsImpl;
+  RhsEtorType m_rhsImpl;
 
   // TODO: Get rid of m_innerDim if known at compile time
   Index m_innerDim;
 };
 
-/***************************************************************************
-* Normal product .coeff() implementation (with meta-unrolling)
-***************************************************************************/
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
+struct product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct>, LazyCoeffBasedProductMode, DenseShape, DenseShape, typename traits<Lhs>::Scalar, typename traits<Rhs>::Scalar > 
+  : product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, CoeffBasedProductMode, DenseShape, DenseShape, typename traits<Lhs>::Scalar, typename traits<Rhs>::Scalar >
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, DefaultProduct> XprType;
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct> BaseProduct;
+  typedef product_evaluator<BaseProduct, CoeffBasedProductMode, DenseShape, DenseShape, typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar > Base;
+  product_evaluator(const XprType& xpr) 
+    : Base(BaseProduct(xpr.lhs(),xpr.rhs()))
+  {}
+};
 
-/**************************************
-*** Scalar path  - no vectorization ***
-**************************************/
+/****************************************
+*** Coeff based product, Packet path  ***
+****************************************/
 
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct etor_product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
+template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
+struct etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
 {
   typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, RetScalar &res)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet &res)
   {
-    etor_product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
-    res += lhs.coeff(row, UnrollingIndex) * rhs.coeff(UnrollingIndex, col);
+    etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
+    res =  pmadd(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, UnrollingIndex)), rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(UnrollingIndex, col), res);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct etor_product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, 0, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
+template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
+struct etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
 {
   typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, RetScalar &res)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet &res)
   {
-    res = lhs.coeff(row, 0) * rhs.coeff(0, col);
+    etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
+    res =  pmadd(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, UnrollingIndex), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(UnrollingIndex, col)), res);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct etor_product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
+struct etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, 0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
 {
   typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, RetScalar& res)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, Packet &res)
   {
-    eigen_assert(innerDim>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
-    res = lhs.coeff(row, 0) * rhs.coeff(0, col);
-    for(Index i = 1; i < innerDim; ++i)
-      res += lhs.coeff(row, i) * rhs.coeff(i, col);
+    res = pmul(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, 0)),rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(0, col));
   }
 };
 
-/*******************************************
-*** Scalar path with inner vectorization ***
-*******************************************/
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet>
-struct etor_product_coeff_vectorized_unroller
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
+struct etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, 0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
 {
   typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  enum { PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar>::size };
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, typename Lhs::PacketScalar &pres)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, Packet &res)
   {
-    etor_product_coeff_vectorized_unroller<UnrollingIndex-PacketSize, Lhs, Rhs, Packet>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, pres);
-    pres = padd(pres, pmul( lhs.template packet<Aligned>(row, UnrollingIndex) , rhs.template packet<Aligned>(UnrollingIndex, col) ));
+    res = pmul(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, 0), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(0, col)));
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet>
-struct etor_product_coeff_vectorized_unroller<0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
+struct etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
 {
   typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, typename Lhs::PacketScalar &pres)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet& res)
   {
-    pres = pmul(lhs.template packet<Aligned>(row, 0) , rhs.template packet<Aligned>(0, col));
+    eigen_assert(innerDim>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
+    res = pmul(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, 0)),rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(0, col));
+    for(Index i = 1; i < innerDim; ++i)
+      res =  pmadd(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, i)), rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(i, col), res);
   }
 };
 
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct etor_product_coeff_impl<InnerVectorizedTraversal, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
+struct etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::PacketScalar Packet;
   typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  enum { PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar>::size };
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, RetScalar &res)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet& res)
   {
-    Packet pres;
-    etor_product_coeff_vectorized_unroller<UnrollingIndex+1-PacketSize, Lhs, Rhs, Packet>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, pres);
-    etor_product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal,UnrollingIndex,Lhs,Rhs,RetScalar>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
-    res = predux(pres);
+    eigen_assert(innerDim>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
+    res = pmul(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, 0), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(0, col)));
+    for(Index i = 1; i < innerDim; ++i)
+      res =  pmadd(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, i), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(i, col)), res);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int LhsRows = Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime, int RhsCols = Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime>
-struct etor_product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector
+
+/***************************************************************************
+* Triangular products
+***************************************************************************/
+template<int Mode, bool LhsIsTriangular,
+         typename Lhs, bool LhsIsVector,
+         typename Rhs, bool RhsIsVector>
+struct triangular_product_impl;
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,TriangularShape,DenseShape,ProductTag>
+  : generic_product_impl_base<Lhs,Rhs,generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,TriangularShape,DenseShape,ProductTag> >
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    res = lhs.row(row).transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs.col(col)).sum();
+    triangular_product_impl<Lhs::Mode,true,typename Lhs::MatrixType,false,Rhs, Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime==1>
+        ::run(dst, lhs.nestedExpression(), rhs, alpha);
   }
 };
 
-// NOTE the 3 following specializations are because taking .col(0) on a vector is a bit slower
-// NOTE maybe they are now useless since we have a specialization for Block<Matrix>
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int RhsCols>
-struct etor_product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs,1,RhsCols>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,TriangularShape,ProductTag>
+: generic_product_impl_base<Lhs,Rhs,generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,TriangularShape,ProductTag> >
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index /*row*/, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    res = lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs.col(col)).sum();
+    triangular_product_impl<Rhs::Mode,false,Lhs,Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime==1, typename Rhs::MatrixType, false>::run(dst, lhs, rhs.nestedExpression(), alpha);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int LhsRows>
-struct etor_product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs,LhsRows,1>
+
+/***************************************************************************
+* SelfAdjoint products
+***************************************************************************/
+template <typename Lhs, int LhsMode, bool LhsIsVector,
+          typename Rhs, int RhsMode, bool RhsIsVector>
+struct selfadjoint_product_impl;
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,SelfAdjointShape,DenseShape,ProductTag>
+  : generic_product_impl_base<Lhs,Rhs,generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,SelfAdjointShape,DenseShape,ProductTag> >
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index /*col*/, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    res = lhs.row(row).transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs).sum();
+    selfadjoint_product_impl<typename Lhs::MatrixType,Lhs::Mode,false,Rhs,0,Rhs::IsVectorAtCompileTime>::run(dst, lhs.nestedExpression(), rhs, alpha);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct etor_product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs,1,1>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,SelfAdjointShape,ProductTag>
+: generic_product_impl_base<Lhs,Rhs,generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,SelfAdjointShape,ProductTag> >
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index /*row*/, Index /*col*/, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    res = lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs).sum();
+    selfadjoint_product_impl<Lhs,0,Lhs::IsVectorAtCompileTime,typename Rhs::MatrixType,Rhs::Mode,false>::run(dst, lhs, rhs.nestedExpression(), alpha);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct etor_product_coeff_impl<InnerVectorizedTraversal, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
+
+/***************************************************************************
+* Diagonal products
+***************************************************************************/
+  
+template<typename MatrixType, typename DiagonalType, typename Derived, int ProductOrder>
+struct diagonal_product_evaluator_base
+  : evaluator_base<Derived>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
+   typedef typename MatrixType::Index Index;
+   typedef typename scalar_product_traits<typename MatrixType::Scalar, typename DiagonalType::Scalar>::ReturnType Scalar;
+   typedef typename internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::type PacketScalar;
+public:
+  enum {
+    CoeffReadCost = NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost + evaluator<MatrixType>::CoeffReadCost + evaluator<DiagonalType>::CoeffReadCost,
+    
+    MatrixFlags = evaluator<MatrixType>::Flags,
+    DiagFlags = evaluator<DiagonalType>::Flags,
+    _StorageOrder = MatrixFlags & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
+    _ScalarAccessOnDiag =  !((int(_StorageOrder) == ColMajor && int(ProductOrder) == OnTheLeft)
+                           ||(int(_StorageOrder) == RowMajor && int(ProductOrder) == OnTheRight)),
+    _SameTypes = is_same<typename MatrixType::Scalar, typename DiagonalType::Scalar>::value,
+    // FIXME currently we need same types, but in the future the next rule should be the one
+    //_Vectorizable = bool(int(MatrixFlags)&PacketAccessBit) && ((!_PacketOnDiag) || (_SameTypes && bool(int(DiagFlags)&PacketAccessBit))),
+    _Vectorizable = bool(int(MatrixFlags)&PacketAccessBit) && _SameTypes && (_ScalarAccessOnDiag || (bool(int(DiagFlags)&PacketAccessBit))),
+    _LinearAccessMask = (MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime==1 || MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime==1) ? LinearAccessBit : 0,
+    Flags = ((HereditaryBits|_LinearAccessMask) & (unsigned int)(MatrixFlags)) | (_Vectorizable ? PacketAccessBit : 0) | AlignedBit
+            //(int(MatrixFlags)&int(DiagFlags)&AlignedBit),
+  };
+  
+  diagonal_product_evaluator_base(const MatrixType &mat, const DiagonalType &diag)
+    : m_diagImpl(diag), m_matImpl(mat)
+  {
+  }
+  
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index idx) const
   {
-    etor_product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
+    return m_diagImpl.coeff(idx) * m_matImpl.coeff(idx);
   }
+  
+protected:
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet_impl(Index row, Index col, Index id, internal::true_type) const
+  {
+    return internal::pmul(m_matImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col),
+                          internal::pset1<PacketScalar>(m_diagImpl.coeff(id)));
+  }
+  
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet_impl(Index row, Index col, Index id, internal::false_type) const
+  {
+    enum {
+      InnerSize = (MatrixType::Flags & RowMajorBit) ? MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime : MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime,
+      DiagonalPacketLoadMode = (LoadMode == Aligned && (((InnerSize%16) == 0) || (int(DiagFlags)&AlignedBit)==AlignedBit) ? Aligned : Unaligned)
+    };
+    return internal::pmul(m_matImpl.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col),
+                          m_diagImpl.template packet<DiagonalPacketLoadMode>(id));
+  }
+  
+  typename evaluator<DiagonalType>::nestedType m_diagImpl;
+  typename evaluator<MatrixType>::nestedType   m_matImpl;
 };
 
-/*******************
-*** Packet path  ***
-*******************/
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
+// diagonal * dense
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductKind, int ProductTag>
+struct product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, ProductKind>, ProductTag, DiagonalShape, DenseShape, typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar> 
+  : diagonal_product_evaluator_base<Rhs, typename Lhs::DiagonalVectorType, Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, OnTheLeft>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet &res)
+  typedef diagonal_product_evaluator_base<Rhs, typename Lhs::DiagonalVectorType, Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, OnTheLeft> Base;
+  using Base::m_diagImpl;
+  using Base::m_matImpl;
+  using Base::coeff;
+  using Base::packet_impl;
+  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+  typedef typename Base::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
+  
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, ProductKind> XprType;
+  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  
+  enum {
+    StorageOrder = int(Rhs::Flags) & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor
+  };
+
+  product_evaluator(const XprType& xpr)
+    : Base(xpr.rhs(), xpr.lhs().diagonal())
   {
-    etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
-    res =  pmadd(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, UnrollingIndex)), rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(UnrollingIndex, col), res);
   }
+  
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const
+  {
+    return m_diagImpl.coeff(row) * m_matImpl.coeff(row, col);
+  }
+  
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index row, Index col) const
+  {
+    return this->template packet_impl<LoadMode>(row,col, row,
+                                 typename internal::conditional<int(StorageOrder)==RowMajor, internal::true_type, internal::false_type>::type());
+  }
+  
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index idx) const
+  {
+    return packet<LoadMode>(int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?idx:0,int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?0:idx);
+  }
+  
 };
 
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
+// dense * diagonal
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductKind, int ProductTag>
+struct product_evaluator<Product<Lhs, Rhs, ProductKind>, ProductTag, DenseShape, DiagonalShape, typename Lhs::Scalar, typename Rhs::Scalar> 
+  : diagonal_product_evaluator_base<Lhs, typename Rhs::DiagonalVectorType, Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, OnTheRight>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet &res)
+  typedef diagonal_product_evaluator_base<Lhs, typename Rhs::DiagonalVectorType, Product<Lhs, Rhs, LazyProduct>, OnTheRight> Base;
+  using Base::m_diagImpl;
+  using Base::m_matImpl;
+  using Base::coeff;
+  using Base::packet_impl;
+  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+  typedef typename Base::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
+  
+  typedef Product<Lhs, Rhs, ProductKind> XprType;
+  typedef typename XprType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  
+  enum { StorageOrder = int(Lhs::Flags) & RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor };
+
+  product_evaluator(const XprType& xpr)
+    : Base(xpr.lhs(), xpr.rhs().diagonal())
   {
-    etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, innerDim, res);
-    res =  pmadd(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, UnrollingIndex), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(UnrollingIndex, col)), res);
   }
+  
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const
+  {
+    return m_matImpl.coeff(row, col) * m_diagImpl.coeff(col);
+  }
+  
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index row, Index col) const
+  {
+    return this->template packet_impl<LoadMode>(row,col, col,
+                                 typename internal::conditional<int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor, internal::true_type, internal::false_type>::type());
+  }
+  
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE PacketScalar packet(Index idx) const
+  {
+    return packet<LoadMode>(int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?idx:0,int(StorageOrder)==ColMajor?0:idx);
+  }
+  
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, 0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
+/***************************************************************************
+* Products with permutation matrices
+***************************************************************************/
+  
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs, Rhs, PermutationShape, DenseShape, ProductTag>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, Packet &res)
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void evalTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
   {
-    res = pmul(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, 0)),rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(0, col));
+    permut_matrix_product_retval<Lhs, Rhs, OnTheLeft, false> pmpr(lhs, rhs);
+    pmpr.evalTo(dst);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, 0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs, Rhs, DenseShape, PermutationShape, ProductTag>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index /*innerDim*/, Packet &res)
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void evalTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
   {
-    res = pmul(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, 0), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(0, col)));
+    permut_matrix_product_retval<Rhs, Lhs, OnTheRight, false> pmpr(rhs, lhs);
+    pmpr.evalTo(dst);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct etor_product_packet_impl<RowMajor, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Transpose<Lhs>, Rhs, PermutationShape, DenseShape, ProductTag>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet& res)
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void evalTo(Dest& dst, const Transpose<Lhs>& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
   {
-    eigen_assert(innerDim>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
-    res = pmul(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, 0)),rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(0, col));
-    for(Index i = 1; i < innerDim; ++i)
-      res =  pmadd(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, i)), rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(i, col), res);
+    permut_matrix_product_retval<Lhs, Rhs, OnTheLeft, true> pmpr(lhs.nestedPermutation(), rhs);
+    pmpr.evalTo(dst);
   }
 };
 
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct etor_product_packet_impl<ColMajor, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int ProductTag>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs, Transpose<Rhs>, DenseShape, PermutationShape, ProductTag>
 {
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Index innerDim, Packet& res)
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void evalTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Transpose<Rhs>& rhs)
   {
-    eigen_assert(innerDim>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
-    res = pmul(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, 0), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(0, col)));
-    for(Index i = 1; i < innerDim; ++i)
-      res =  pmadd(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, i), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(i, col)), res);
+    permut_matrix_product_retval<Rhs, Lhs, OnTheRight, true> pmpr(rhs.nestedPermutation(), lhs);
+    pmpr.evalTo(dst);
   }
 };
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Redux.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Redux.h
index 5b82c9a65..c6c355d43 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Redux.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Redux.h
@@ -65,6 +65,25 @@ public:
               ? CompleteUnrolling
               : NoUnrolling
   };
+  
+#ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
+  static void debug()
+  {
+    std::cerr << "Xpr: " << typeid(typename Derived::XprType).name() << std::endl;
+    std::cerr.setf(std::ios::hex, std::ios::basefield);
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Derived::Flags)
+    std::cerr.unsetf(std::ios::hex);
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(InnerMaxSize)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(PacketSize)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MightVectorize)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MayLinearVectorize)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(MaySliceVectorize)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Traversal)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(UnrollingLimit)
+    EIGEN_DEBUG_VAR(Unrolling)
+    std::cerr << std::endl;
+  }
+#endif
 };
 
 /***************************************************************************
@@ -174,7 +193,7 @@ struct redux_impl<Func, Derived, DefaultTraversal, NoUnrolling>
   typedef typename Derived::Scalar Scalar;
   typedef typename Derived::Index Index;
   EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar run(const Derived& mat, const Func& func)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar run(const Derived &mat, const Func& func)
   {
     eigen_assert(mat.rows()>0 && mat.cols()>0 && "you are using an empty matrix");
     Scalar res;
@@ -200,14 +219,14 @@ struct redux_impl<Func, Derived, LinearVectorizedTraversal, NoUnrolling>
   typedef typename packet_traits<Scalar>::type PacketScalar;
   typedef typename Derived::Index Index;
 
-  static Scalar run(const Derived& mat, const Func& func)
+  static Scalar run(const Derived &mat, const Func& func)
   {
     const Index size = mat.size();
-    eigen_assert(size && "you are using an empty matrix");
+    
     const Index packetSize = packet_traits<Scalar>::size;
     const Index alignedStart = internal::first_aligned(mat);
     enum {
-      alignment = bool(Derived::Flags & DirectAccessBit) || bool(Derived::Flags & AlignedBit)
+      alignment = (bool(Derived::Flags & DirectAccessBit) && bool(packet_traits<Scalar>::AlignedOnScalar)) || bool(Derived::Flags & AlignedBit)
                 ? Aligned : Unaligned
     };
     const Index alignedSize2 = ((size-alignedStart)/(2*packetSize))*(2*packetSize);
@@ -258,7 +277,7 @@ struct redux_impl<Func, Derived, SliceVectorizedTraversal, NoUnrolling>
   typedef typename packet_traits<Scalar>::type PacketScalar;
   typedef typename Derived::Index Index;
 
-  static Scalar run(const Derived& mat, const Func& func)
+  static Scalar run(const Derived &mat, const Func& func)
   {
     eigen_assert(mat.rows()>0 && mat.cols()>0 && "you are using an empty matrix");
     const Index innerSize = mat.innerSize();
@@ -300,7 +319,7 @@ struct redux_impl<Func, Derived, LinearVectorizedTraversal, CompleteUnrolling>
     Size = Derived::SizeAtCompileTime,
     VectorizedSize = (Size / PacketSize) * PacketSize
   };
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar run(const Derived& mat, const Func& func)
+  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Scalar run(const Derived &mat, const Func& func)
   {
     eigen_assert(mat.rows()>0 && mat.cols()>0 && "you are using an empty matrix");
     if (VectorizedSize > 0) {
@@ -315,6 +334,63 @@ struct redux_impl<Func, Derived, LinearVectorizedTraversal, CompleteUnrolling>
   }
 };
 
+// evaluator adaptor
+template<typename _XprType>
+class redux_evaluator
+{
+public:
+  typedef _XprType XprType;
+  redux_evaluator(const XprType &xpr) : m_evaluator(xpr), m_xpr(xpr) {}
+  
+  typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
+  typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename XprType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
+  typedef typename XprType::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
+  typedef typename XprType::PacketReturnType PacketReturnType;
+  
+  enum {
+    MaxRowsAtCompileTime = XprType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
+    MaxColsAtCompileTime = XprType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+    // TODO we should not remove DirectAccessBit and rather find an elegant way to query the alignment offset at runtime from the evaluator
+    Flags = evaluator<XprType>::Flags & ~DirectAccessBit,
+    IsRowMajor = XprType::IsRowMajor,
+    SizeAtCompileTime = XprType::SizeAtCompileTime,
+    InnerSizeAtCompileTime = XprType::InnerSizeAtCompileTime,
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<XprType>::CoeffReadCost
+  };
+  
+  Index rows() const { return m_xpr.rows(); }
+  Index cols() const { return m_xpr.cols(); }
+  Index size() const { return m_xpr.size(); }
+  Index innerSize() const { return m_xpr.innerSize(); }
+  Index outerSize() const { return m_xpr.outerSize(); }
+
+  CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
+  { return m_evaluator.coeff(row, col); }
+
+  CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const
+  { return m_evaluator.coeff(index); }
+
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  PacketReturnType packet(Index row, Index col) const
+  { return m_evaluator.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col); }
+
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  PacketReturnType packet(Index index) const
+  { return m_evaluator.template packet<LoadMode>(index); }
+  
+  CoeffReturnType coeffByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner) const
+  { return m_evaluator.coeff(IsRowMajor ? outer : inner, IsRowMajor ? inner : outer); }
+  
+  template<int LoadMode>
+  PacketReturnType packetByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner) const
+  { return m_evaluator.template packet<LoadMode>(IsRowMajor ? outer : inner, IsRowMajor ? inner : outer); }
+  
+protected:
+  typename internal::evaluator<XprType>::nestedType m_evaluator;
+  const XprType &m_xpr;
+};
+
 } // end namespace internal
 
 /***************************************************************************
@@ -325,7 +401,7 @@ struct redux_impl<Func, Derived, LinearVectorizedTraversal, CompleteUnrolling>
 /** \returns the result of a full redux operation on the whole matrix or vector using \a func
   *
   * The template parameter \a BinaryOp is the type of the functor \a func which must be
-  * an associative operator. Both current STL and TR1 functor styles are handled.
+  * an associative operator. Both current C++98 and C++11 functor styles are handled.
   *
   * \sa DenseBase::sum(), DenseBase::minCoeff(), DenseBase::maxCoeff(), MatrixBase::colwise(), MatrixBase::rowwise()
   */
@@ -334,9 +410,22 @@ template<typename Func>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE typename internal::result_of<Func(typename internal::traits<Derived>::Scalar)>::type
 DenseBase<Derived>::redux(const Func& func) const
 {
-  typedef typename internal::remove_all<typename Derived::Nested>::type ThisNested;
-  return internal::redux_impl<Func, ThisNested>
-            ::run(derived(), func);
+  eigen_assert(this->rows()>0 && this->cols()>0 && "you are using an empty matrix");
+  
+  // FIXME, eval_nest should be handled by redux_evaluator, however:
+  //  - it is currently difficult to provide the right Flags since they are still handled by the expressions
+  //  - handling it here might reduce the number of template instantiations
+//   typedef typename internal::nested_eval<Derived,1>::type ThisNested;
+//   typedef typename internal::remove_all<ThisNested>::type ThisNestedCleaned;
+//   typedef typename internal::redux_evaluator<ThisNestedCleaned> ThisEvaluator;
+//   
+//   ThisNested thisNested(derived());
+//   ThisEvaluator thisEval(thisNested);
+  
+  typedef typename internal::redux_evaluator<Derived> ThisEvaluator;
+  ThisEvaluator thisEval(derived());
+  
+  return internal::redux_impl<Func, ThisEvaluator>::run(thisEval, func);
 }
 
 /** \returns the minimum of all coefficients of \c *this.
@@ -346,7 +435,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE typename internal::traits<Derived>::Scalar
 DenseBase<Derived>::minCoeff() const
 {
-  return this->redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_min_op<Scalar>());
+  return derived().redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_min_op<Scalar>());
 }
 
 /** \returns the maximum of all coefficients of \c *this.
@@ -356,7 +445,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE typename internal::traits<Derived>::Scalar
 DenseBase<Derived>::maxCoeff() const
 {
-  return this->redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_max_op<Scalar>());
+  return derived().redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_max_op<Scalar>());
 }
 
 /** \returns the sum of all coefficients of *this
@@ -369,7 +458,7 @@ DenseBase<Derived>::sum() const
 {
   if(SizeAtCompileTime==0 || (SizeAtCompileTime==Dynamic && size()==0))
     return Scalar(0);
-  return this->redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>());
+  return derived().redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>());
 }
 
 /** \returns the mean of all coefficients of *this
@@ -380,7 +469,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE typename internal::traits<Derived>::Scalar
 DenseBase<Derived>::mean() const
 {
-  return Scalar(this->redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>())) / Scalar(this->size());
+  return Scalar(derived().redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>())) / Scalar(this->size());
 }
 
 /** \returns the product of all coefficients of *this
@@ -396,7 +485,7 @@ DenseBase<Derived>::prod() const
 {
   if(SizeAtCompileTime==0 || (SizeAtCompileTime==Dynamic && size()==0))
     return Scalar(1);
-  return this->redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_product_op<Scalar>());
+  return derived().redux(Eigen::internal::scalar_product_op<Scalar>());
 }
 
 /** \returns the trace of \c *this, i.e. the sum of the coefficients on the main diagonal.
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Ref.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Ref.h
index 92614c6e2..09921c9e7 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Ref.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Ref.h
@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-template<typename Derived> class RefBase;
-template<typename PlainObjectType, int Options = 0,
-         typename StrideType = typename internal::conditional<PlainObjectType::IsVectorAtCompileTime,InnerStride<1>,OuterStride<> >::type > class Ref;
-
 /** \class Ref
   * \ingroup Core_Module
   *
@@ -247,7 +243,7 @@ template<typename TPlainObjectType, int Options, typename StrideType> class Ref<
     template<typename Expression>
     void construct(const Expression& expr, internal::false_type)
     {
-      m_object.lazyAssign(expr);
+      internal::call_assignment_no_alias(m_object,expr,internal::assign_op<Scalar>());
       Base::construct(m_object);
     }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Replicate.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Replicate.h
index dde86a834..3777049ee 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Replicate.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Replicate.h
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ struct traits<Replicate<MatrixType,RowFactor,ColFactor> >
     IsRowMajor = MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1 && MaxColsAtCompileTime!=1 ? 1
                : MaxColsAtCompileTime==1 && MaxRowsAtCompileTime!=1 ? 0
                : (MatrixType::Flags & RowMajorBit) ? 1 : 0,
-    Flags = (_MatrixTypeNested::Flags & HereditaryBits & ~RowMajorBit) | (IsRowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0),
-    CoeffReadCost = _MatrixTypeNested::CoeffReadCost
+    
+    // FIXME enable DirectAccess with negative strides?
+    Flags = IsRowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0
   };
 };
 }
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ template<typename MatrixType,int RowFactor,int ColFactor> class Replicate
 
     typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<Replicate>::type Base;
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Replicate)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<MatrixType>::type NestedExpression;
 
     template<typename OriginalMatrixType>
     inline explicit Replicate(const OriginalMatrixType& a_matrix)
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/ReturnByValue.h b/Eigen/src/Core/ReturnByValue.h
index 7834f6cbc..f4e12a93b 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/ReturnByValue.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/ReturnByValue.h
@@ -38,9 +38,10 @@ struct traits<ReturnByValue<Derived> >
  * So internal::nested always gives the plain return matrix type.
  *
  * FIXME: I don't understand why we need this specialization: isn't this taken care of by the EvalBeforeNestingBit ??
+ * Answer: EvalBeforeNestingBit should be deprecated since we have the evaluators
  */
 template<typename Derived,int n,typename PlainObject>
-struct nested<ReturnByValue<Derived>, n, PlainObject>
+struct nested_eval<ReturnByValue<Derived>, n, PlainObject>
 {
   typedef typename traits<Derived>::ReturnType type;
 };
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ template<typename Derived> class ReturnByValue
     const Unusable& coeff(Index,Index) const { return *reinterpret_cast<const Unusable*>(this); }
     Unusable& coeffRef(Index) { return *reinterpret_cast<Unusable*>(this); }
     Unusable& coeffRef(Index,Index) { return *reinterpret_cast<Unusable*>(this); }
+#undef Unusable
 #endif
 };
 
@@ -84,6 +86,36 @@ Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator=(const ReturnByValue<OtherDerived>& other)
   return derived();
 }
 
+namespace internal {
+
+// Expression is evaluated in a temporary; default implementation of Assignment is bypassed so that
+// when a ReturnByValue expression is assigned, the evaluator is not constructed.
+// TODO: Finalize port to new regime; ReturnByValue should not exist in the expression world
+  
+template<typename Derived>
+struct evaluator<ReturnByValue<Derived> >
+  : public evaluator<typename internal::traits<Derived>::ReturnType>::type
+{
+  typedef ReturnByValue<Derived> XprType;
+  typedef typename internal::traits<Derived>::ReturnType PlainObject;
+  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
+
+  evaluator(const XprType& xpr) 
+    : m_result(xpr.rows(), xpr.cols())
+  {
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    xpr.evalTo(m_result);
+  }
+
+protected:
+  PlainObject m_result;
+};
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_RETURNBYVALUE_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Reverse.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Reverse.h
index e30ae3d28..01de90800 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Reverse.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Reverse.h
@@ -44,14 +44,7 @@ struct traits<Reverse<MatrixType, Direction> >
     ColsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime,
     MaxRowsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
     MaxColsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-
-    // let's enable LinearAccess only with vectorization because of the product overhead
-    LinearAccess = ( (Direction==BothDirections) && (int(_MatrixTypeNested::Flags)&PacketAccessBit) )
-                 ? LinearAccessBit : 0,
-
-    Flags = int(_MatrixTypeNested::Flags) & (HereditaryBits | LvalueBit | PacketAccessBit | LinearAccess),
-
-    CoeffReadCost = _MatrixTypeNested::CoeffReadCost
+    Flags = _MatrixTypeNested::Flags & (RowMajorBit | LvalueBit)
   };
 };
 
@@ -74,6 +67,7 @@ template<typename MatrixType, int Direction> class Reverse
 
     typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<Reverse>::type Base;
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Reverse)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<MatrixType>::type NestedExpression;
     using Base::IsRowMajor;
 
     // next line is necessary because otherwise const version of operator()
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Select.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Select.h
index 87993bbb5..0cb85a4ad 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Select.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Select.h
@@ -43,10 +43,7 @@ struct traits<Select<ConditionMatrixType, ThenMatrixType, ElseMatrixType> >
     ColsAtCompileTime = ConditionMatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime,
     MaxRowsAtCompileTime = ConditionMatrixType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
     MaxColsAtCompileTime = ConditionMatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-    Flags = (unsigned int)ThenMatrixType::Flags & ElseMatrixType::Flags & HereditaryBits,
-    CoeffReadCost = traits<typename remove_all<ConditionMatrixNested>::type>::CoeffReadCost
-                  + EIGEN_SIZE_MAX(traits<typename remove_all<ThenMatrixNested>::type>::CoeffReadCost,
-                                   traits<typename remove_all<ElseMatrixNested>::type>::CoeffReadCost)
+    Flags = (unsigned int)ThenMatrixType::Flags & ElseMatrixType::Flags & RowMajorBit
   };
 };
 }
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/SelfAdjointView.h b/Eigen/src/Core/SelfAdjointView.h
index 6c2733650..19cb232c9 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/SelfAdjointView.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/SelfAdjointView.h
@@ -35,26 +35,22 @@ struct traits<SelfAdjointView<MatrixType, UpLo> > : traits<MatrixType>
   typedef typename nested<MatrixType>::type MatrixTypeNested;
   typedef typename remove_all<MatrixTypeNested>::type MatrixTypeNestedCleaned;
   typedef MatrixType ExpressionType;
-  typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject DenseMatrixType;
+  typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject FullMatrixType;
   enum {
     Mode = UpLo | SelfAdjoint,
     Flags =  MatrixTypeNestedCleaned::Flags & (HereditaryBits)
-           & (~(PacketAccessBit | DirectAccessBit | LinearAccessBit)), // FIXME these flags should be preserved
-    CoeffReadCost = MatrixTypeNestedCleaned::CoeffReadCost
+           & (~(PacketAccessBit | DirectAccessBit | LinearAccessBit)) // FIXME these flags should be preserved
   };
 };
 }
 
-template <typename Lhs, int LhsMode, bool LhsIsVector,
-          typename Rhs, int RhsMode, bool RhsIsVector>
-struct SelfadjointProductMatrix;
-
 // FIXME could also be called SelfAdjointWrapper to be consistent with DiagonalWrapper ??
-template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int UpLo> class SelfAdjointView
-  : public TriangularBase<SelfAdjointView<MatrixType, UpLo> >
+template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int UpLo> class SelfAdjointView
+  : public TriangularBase<SelfAdjointView<_MatrixType, UpLo> >
 {
   public:
 
+    typedef _MatrixType MatrixType;
     typedef TriangularBase<SelfAdjointView> Base;
     typedef typename internal::traits<SelfAdjointView>::MatrixTypeNested MatrixTypeNested;
     typedef typename internal::traits<SelfAdjointView>::MatrixTypeNestedCleaned MatrixTypeNestedCleaned;
@@ -65,7 +61,8 @@ template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int UpLo> class SelfAdjointView
     typedef typename MatrixType::Index Index;
 
     enum {
-      Mode = internal::traits<SelfAdjointView>::Mode
+      Mode = internal::traits<SelfAdjointView>::Mode,
+      Flags = internal::traits<SelfAdjointView>::Flags
     };
     typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject PlainObject;
 
@@ -111,26 +108,29 @@ template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int UpLo> class SelfAdjointView
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     MatrixTypeNestedCleaned& nestedExpression() { return *const_cast<MatrixTypeNestedCleaned*>(&m_matrix); }
 
-    /** Efficient self-adjoint matrix times vector/matrix product */
+    /** Efficient triangular matrix times vector/matrix product */
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    SelfadjointProductMatrix<MatrixType,Mode,false,OtherDerived,0,OtherDerived::IsVectorAtCompileTime>
+    const Product<SelfAdjointView,OtherDerived>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& rhs) const
     {
-      return SelfadjointProductMatrix
-              <MatrixType,Mode,false,OtherDerived,0,OtherDerived::IsVectorAtCompileTime>
-              (m_matrix, rhs.derived());
+      return Product<SelfAdjointView,OtherDerived>(*this, rhs.derived());
     }
 
-    /** Efficient vector/matrix times self-adjoint matrix product */
+    /** Efficient vector/matrix times triangular matrix product */
     template<typename OtherDerived> friend
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    SelfadjointProductMatrix<OtherDerived,0,OtherDerived::IsVectorAtCompileTime,MatrixType,Mode,false>
+    const Product<OtherDerived,SelfAdjointView>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& lhs, const SelfAdjointView& rhs)
     {
-      return SelfadjointProductMatrix
-              <OtherDerived,0,OtherDerived::IsVectorAtCompileTime,MatrixType,Mode,false>
-              (lhs.derived(),rhs.m_matrix);
+      return Product<OtherDerived,SelfAdjointView>(lhs.derived(),rhs);
+    }
+    
+    friend EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    const SelfAdjointView<const CwiseUnaryOp<internal::scalar_multiple_op<Scalar>,MatrixType>,UpLo>
+    operator*(const Scalar& s, const SelfAdjointView& mat)
+    {
+      return (s*mat.nestedExpression()).template selfadjointView<UpLo>();
     }
 
     /** Perform a symmetric rank 2 update of the selfadjoint matrix \c *this:
@@ -194,96 +194,57 @@ template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int UpLo> class SelfAdjointView
 
 namespace internal {
 
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int UnrollCount, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, (SelfAdjoint|Upper), UnrollCount, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  enum {
-    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Derived1::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Derived1::RowsAtCompileTime
-  };
-
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, (SelfAdjoint|Upper), UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
-
-    if(row == col)
-      dst.coeffRef(row, col) = numext::real(src.coeff(row, col));
-    else if(row < col)
-      dst.coeffRef(col, row) = numext::conj(dst.coeffRef(row, col) = src.coeff(row, col));
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, SelfAdjoint|Upper, 0, ClearOpposite>
+// TODO currently a selfadjoint expression has the form SelfAdjointView<.,.>
+//      in the future selfadjoint-ness should be defined by the expression traits
+//      such that Transpose<SelfAdjointView<.,.> > is valid. (currently TriangularBase::transpose() is overloaded to make it work)
+template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
+struct evaluator_traits<SelfAdjointView<MatrixType,Mode> >
 {
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) {}
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind<typename MatrixType::StorageKind>::Kind Kind;
+  typedef SelfAdjointShape Shape;
+  
+  static const int AssumeAliasing = 0;
 };
 
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, int UnrollCount, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, (SelfAdjoint|Lower), UnrollCount, ClearOpposite>
+template<int UpLo, int SetOpposite, typename DstEvaluatorTypeT, typename SrcEvaluatorTypeT, typename Functor, int Version>
+class triangular_dense_assignment_kernel<UpLo,SelfAdjoint,SetOpposite,DstEvaluatorTypeT,SrcEvaluatorTypeT,Functor,Version>
+  : public generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, Functor, Version>
 {
-  enum {
-    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Derived1::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Derived1::RowsAtCompileTime
-  };
-
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
+protected:
+  typedef generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, Functor, Version> Base;
+  typedef typename Base::DstXprType DstXprType;
+  typedef typename Base::SrcXprType SrcXprType;
+  using Base::m_dst;
+  using Base::m_src;
+  using Base::m_functor;
+public:
+  
+  typedef typename Base::DstEvaluatorType DstEvaluatorType;
+  typedef typename Base::SrcEvaluatorType SrcEvaluatorType;
+  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+  typedef typename Base::AssignmentTraits AssignmentTraits;
+  
+  
+  triangular_dense_assignment_kernel(DstEvaluatorType &dst, const SrcEvaluatorType &src, const Functor &func, DstXprType& dstExpr)
+    : Base(dst, src, func, dstExpr)
+  {}
+  
+  void assignCoeff(Index row, Index col)
   {
-    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, (SelfAdjoint|Lower), UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
-
-    if(row == col)
-      dst.coeffRef(row, col) = numext::real(src.coeff(row, col));
-    else if(row > col)
-      dst.coeffRef(col, row) = numext::conj(dst.coeffRef(row, col) = src.coeff(row, col));
+    eigen_internal_assert(row!=col);
+    Scalar tmp = m_src.coeff(row,col);
+    m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(row,col), tmp);
+    m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(col,row), numext::conj(tmp));
   }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, SelfAdjoint|Lower, 0, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) {}
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, SelfAdjoint|Upper, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
+  
+  void assignDiagonalCoeff(Index id)
   {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      for(Index i = 0; i < j; ++i)
-      {
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-        dst.coeffRef(j,i) = numext::conj(dst.coeff(i,j));
-      }
-      dst.copyCoeff(j, j, src);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, SelfAdjoint|Lower, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-    for(Index i = 0; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-    {
-      for(Index j = 0; j < i; ++j)
-      {
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-        dst.coeffRef(j,i) = numext::conj(dst.coeff(i,j));
-      }
-      dst.copyCoeff(i, i, src);
-    }
+    Base::assignCoeff(id,id);
   }
+  
+  void assignOppositeCoeff(Index, Index)
+  { eigen_internal_assert(false && "should never be called"); }
 };
 
 } // end namespace internal
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h b/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h
index 65864adf8..38185d9d7 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h
@@ -12,179 +12,11 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-/** \class SelfCwiseBinaryOp
-  * \ingroup Core_Module
-  *
-  * \internal
-  *
-  * \brief Internal helper class for optimizing operators like +=, -=
-  *
-  * This is a pseudo expression class re-implementing the copyCoeff/copyPacket
-  * method to directly performs a +=/-= operations in an optimal way. In particular,
-  * this allows to make sure that the input/output data are loaded only once using
-  * aligned packet loads.
-  *
-  * \sa class SwapWrapper for a similar trick.
-  */
-
-namespace internal {
-template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<SelfCwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >
-  : traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >
-{
-  enum {
-    // Note that it is still a good idea to preserve the DirectAccessBit
-    // so that assign can correctly align the data.
-    Flags = traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >::Flags | (Lhs::Flags&AlignedBit) | (Lhs::Flags&DirectAccessBit) | (Lhs::Flags&LvalueBit),
-    OuterStrideAtCompileTime = Lhs::OuterStrideAtCompileTime,
-    InnerStrideAtCompileTime = Lhs::InnerStrideAtCompileTime
-  };
-};
-}
-
-template<typename BinaryOp, typename Lhs, typename Rhs> class SelfCwiseBinaryOp
-  : public internal::dense_xpr_base< SelfCwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp, Lhs, Rhs> >::type
-{
-  public:
-
-    typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<SelfCwiseBinaryOp>::type Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(SelfCwiseBinaryOp)
-
-    typedef typename internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::type Packet;
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline SelfCwiseBinaryOp(Lhs& xpr, const BinaryOp& func = BinaryOp()) : m_matrix(xpr), m_functor(func) {}
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline Index rows() const { return m_matrix.rows(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline Index cols() const { return m_matrix.cols(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline Index outerStride() const { return m_matrix.outerStride(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline Index innerStride() const { return m_matrix.innerStride(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC inline const Scalar* data() const { return m_matrix.data(); }
-
-    // note that this function is needed by assign to correctly align loads/stores
-    // TODO make Assign use .data()
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(Lhs)
-      return m_matrix.const_cast_derived().coeffRef(row, col);
-    }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      return m_matrix.coeffRef(row, col);
-    }
-
-    // note that this function is needed by assign to correctly align loads/stores
-    // TODO make Assign use .data()
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index index)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(Lhs)
-      return m_matrix.const_cast_derived().coeffRef(index);
-    }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const Scalar& coeffRef(Index index) const
-    {
-      return m_matrix.const_cast_derived().coeffRef(index);
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void copyCoeff(Index row, Index col, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                         && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      Scalar& tmp = m_matrix.coeffRef(row,col);
-      tmp = m_functor(tmp, _other.coeff(row,col));
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void copyCoeff(Index index, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < m_matrix.size());
-      Scalar& tmp = m_matrix.coeffRef(index);
-      tmp = m_functor(tmp, _other.coeff(index));
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    void copyPacket(Index row, Index col, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(row >= 0 && row < rows()
-                        && col >= 0 && col < cols());
-      m_matrix.template writePacket<StoreMode>(row, col,
-        m_functor.packetOp(m_matrix.template packet<StoreMode>(row, col),_other.template packet<LoadMode>(row, col)) );
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    void copyPacket(Index index, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < m_matrix.size());
-      m_matrix.template writePacket<StoreMode>(index,
-        m_functor.packetOp(m_matrix.template packet<StoreMode>(index),_other.template packet<LoadMode>(index)) );
-    }
-
-    // reimplement lazyAssign to handle complex *= real
-    // see CwiseBinaryOp ctor for details
-    template<typename RhsDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE SelfCwiseBinaryOp& lazyAssign(const DenseBase<RhsDerived>& rhs)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_SAME_MATRIX_SIZE(Lhs,RhsDerived)
-      EIGEN_CHECK_BINARY_COMPATIBILIY(BinaryOp,typename Lhs::Scalar,typename RhsDerived::Scalar);
-      
-    #ifdef EIGEN_DEBUG_ASSIGN
-      internal::assign_traits<SelfCwiseBinaryOp, RhsDerived>::debug();
-    #endif
-      eigen_assert(rows() == rhs.rows() && cols() == rhs.cols());
-      internal::assign_impl<SelfCwiseBinaryOp, RhsDerived>::run(*this,rhs.derived());
-    #ifndef EIGEN_NO_DEBUG
-      this->checkTransposeAliasing(rhs.derived());
-    #endif
-      return *this;
-    }
-    
-    // overloaded to honor evaluation of special matrices
-    // maybe another solution would be to not use SelfCwiseBinaryOp
-    // at first...
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    SelfCwiseBinaryOp& operator=(const Rhs& _rhs)
-    {
-      typename internal::nested<Rhs>::type rhs(_rhs);
-      return Base::operator=(rhs);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    Lhs& expression() const 
-    { 
-      return m_matrix;
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const BinaryOp& functor() const 
-    { 
-      return m_functor;
-    }
-
-  protected:
-    Lhs& m_matrix;
-    const BinaryOp& m_functor;
-
-  private:
-    SelfCwiseBinaryOp& operator=(const SelfCwiseBinaryOp&);
-};
-
 template<typename Derived>
 inline Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator*=(const Scalar& other)
 {
   typedef typename Derived::PlainObject PlainObject;
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_product_op<Scalar>, Derived, typename PlainObject::ConstantReturnType> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other);
+  internal::call_assignment(this->derived(), PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other), internal::mul_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -192,8 +24,7 @@ template<typename Derived>
 inline Derived& ArrayBase<Derived>::operator+=(const Scalar& other)
 {
   typedef typename Derived::PlainObject PlainObject;
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_sum_op<Scalar>, Derived, typename PlainObject::ConstantReturnType> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other);
+  internal::call_assignment(this->derived(), PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
@@ -201,23 +32,15 @@ template<typename Derived>
 inline Derived& ArrayBase<Derived>::operator-=(const Scalar& other)
 {
   typedef typename Derived::PlainObject PlainObject;
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<internal::scalar_difference_op<Scalar>, Derived, typename PlainObject::ConstantReturnType> tmp(derived());
-  tmp = PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other);
+  internal::call_assignment(this->derived(), PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename Derived>
 inline Derived& DenseBase<Derived>::operator/=(const Scalar& other)
 {
-  typedef typename internal::conditional<NumTraits<Scalar>::IsInteger,
-                                        internal::scalar_quotient_op<Scalar>,
-                                        internal::scalar_product_op<Scalar> >::type BinOp;
   typedef typename Derived::PlainObject PlainObject;
-  SelfCwiseBinaryOp<BinOp, Derived, typename PlainObject::ConstantReturnType> tmp(derived());
-  Scalar actual_other;
-  if(NumTraits<Scalar>::IsInteger)  actual_other = other;
-  else                              actual_other = Scalar(1)/other;
-  tmp = PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(), actual_other);
+  internal::call_assignment(this->derived(), PlainObject::Constant(rows(),cols(),other), internal::div_assign_op<Scalar>());
   return derived();
 }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Solve.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Solve.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b12be1e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Solve.h
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
+// for linear algebra.
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
+// Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
+// with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+#ifndef EIGEN_SOLVE_H
+#define EIGEN_SOLVE_H
+
+namespace Eigen {
+
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType, typename StorageKind> class SolveImpl;
+  
+/** \class Solve
+  * \ingroup Core_Module
+  *
+  * \brief Pseudo expression representing a solving operation
+  *
+  * \tparam Decomposition the type of the matrix or decomposion object
+  * \tparam Rhstype the type of the right-hand side
+  *
+  * This class represents an expression of A.solve(B)
+  * and most of the time this is the only way it is used.
+  *
+  */
+namespace internal {
+
+// this solve_traits class permits to determine the evaluation type with respect to storage kind (Dense vs Sparse)
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType,typename StorageKind> struct solve_traits;
+
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType>
+struct solve_traits<Decomposition,RhsType,Dense>
+{
+  typedef typename Decomposition::MatrixType MatrixType;
+  typedef Matrix<typename RhsType::Scalar,
+                 MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime,
+                 RhsType::ColsAtCompileTime,
+                 RhsType::PlainObject::Options,
+                 MatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+                 RhsType::MaxColsAtCompileTime> PlainObject;  
+};
+
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType>
+struct traits<Solve<Decomposition, RhsType> >
+  : traits<typename solve_traits<Decomposition,RhsType,typename internal::traits<RhsType>::StorageKind>::PlainObject>
+{
+  typedef typename solve_traits<Decomposition,RhsType,typename internal::traits<RhsType>::StorageKind>::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  typedef traits<PlainObject> BaseTraits;
+  enum {
+    Flags = BaseTraits::Flags & RowMajorBit,
+    CoeffReadCost = Dynamic
+  };
+};
+
+}
+
+
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType>
+class Solve : public SolveImpl<Decomposition,RhsType,typename internal::traits<RhsType>::StorageKind>
+{
+public:
+  typedef typename RhsType::Index Index;
+  typedef typename internal::traits<Solve>::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  
+  Solve(const Decomposition &dec, const RhsType &rhs)
+    : m_dec(dec), m_rhs(rhs)
+  {}
+  
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC Index rows() const { return m_dec.cols(); }
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC Index cols() const { return m_rhs.cols(); }
+
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC const Decomposition& dec() const { return m_dec; }
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC const RhsType&       rhs() const { return m_rhs; }
+
+protected:
+  const Decomposition &m_dec;
+  const RhsType       &m_rhs;
+};
+
+
+// Specialization of the Solve expression for dense results
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType>
+class SolveImpl<Decomposition,RhsType,Dense>
+  : public MatrixBase<Solve<Decomposition,RhsType> >
+{
+  typedef Solve<Decomposition,RhsType> Derived;
+  
+public:
+  
+  typedef MatrixBase<Solve<Decomposition,RhsType> > Base;
+  EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived)
+
+private:
+  
+  Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const;
+  Scalar coeff(Index i) const;
+};
+
+// Generic API dispatcher
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType, typename StorageKind>
+class SolveImpl : public internal::generic_xpr_base<Solve<Decomposition,RhsType>, MatrixXpr, StorageKind>::type
+{
+  public:
+    typedef typename internal::generic_xpr_base<Solve<Decomposition,RhsType>, MatrixXpr, StorageKind>::type Base;
+};
+
+namespace internal {
+
+// Evaluator of Solve -> eval into a temporary
+template<typename Decomposition, typename RhsType>
+struct evaluator<Solve<Decomposition,RhsType> >
+  : public evaluator<typename Solve<Decomposition,RhsType>::PlainObject>::type
+{
+  typedef Solve<Decomposition,RhsType> SolveType;
+  typedef typename SolveType::PlainObject PlainObject;
+  typedef typename evaluator<PlainObject>::type Base;
+  
+  typedef evaluator type;
+  typedef evaluator nestedType;
+
+  evaluator(const SolveType& solve)
+    : m_result(solve.rows(), solve.cols())
+  {
+    ::new (static_cast<Base*>(this)) Base(m_result);
+    solve.dec()._solve_impl(solve.rhs(), m_result);
+  }
+  
+protected:  
+  PlainObject m_result;
+};
+
+// Specialization for "dst = dec.solve(rhs)"
+// NOTE we need to specialize it for Dense2Dense to avoid ambiguous specialization error and a Sparse2Sparse specialization must exist somewhere
+template<typename DstXprType, typename DecType, typename RhsType, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Solve<DecType,RhsType>, internal::assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Dense, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Solve<DecType,RhsType> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    // FIXME shall we resize dst here?
+    src.dec()._solve_impl(src.rhs(), dst);
+  }
+};
+
+} // end namepsace internal
+
+} // end namespace Eigen
+
+#endif // EIGEN_SOLVE_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/SolveTriangular.h b/Eigen/src/Core/SolveTriangular.h
index ef17f288e..0f17e3a89 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/SolveTriangular.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/SolveTriangular.h
@@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ struct triangular_solver_selector<Lhs,Rhs,OnTheRight,Mode,CompleteUnrolling,1> {
   */
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
 template<int Side, typename OtherDerived>
-void TriangularView<MatrixType,Mode>::solveInPlace(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& _other) const
+void TriangularViewImpl<MatrixType,Mode,Dense>::solveInPlace(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& _other) const
 {
   OtherDerived& other = _other.const_cast_derived();
-  eigen_assert( cols() == rows() && ((Side==OnTheLeft && cols() == other.rows()) || (Side==OnTheRight && cols() == other.cols())) );
+  eigen_assert( derived().cols() == derived().rows() && ((Side==OnTheLeft && derived().cols() == other.rows()) || (Side==OnTheRight && derived().cols() == other.cols())) );
   eigen_assert((!(Mode & ZeroDiag)) && bool(Mode & (Upper|Lower)));
 
   enum { copy = internal::traits<OtherDerived>::Flags & RowMajorBit  && OtherDerived::IsVectorAtCompileTime };
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void TriangularView<MatrixType,Mode>::solveInPlace(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived
   OtherCopy otherCopy(other);
 
   internal::triangular_solver_selector<MatrixType, typename internal::remove_reference<OtherCopy>::type,
-    Side, Mode>::run(nestedExpression(), otherCopy);
+    Side, Mode>::run(derived().nestedExpression(), otherCopy);
 
   if (copy)
     other = otherCopy;
@@ -213,9 +213,9 @@ void TriangularView<MatrixType,Mode>::solveInPlace(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived
 template<typename Derived, unsigned int Mode>
 template<int Side, typename Other>
 const internal::triangular_solve_retval<Side,TriangularView<Derived,Mode>,Other>
-TriangularView<Derived,Mode>::solve(const MatrixBase<Other>& other) const
+TriangularViewImpl<Derived,Mode,Dense>::solve(const MatrixBase<Other>& other) const
 {
-  return internal::triangular_solve_retval<Side,TriangularView,Other>(*this, other.derived());
+  return internal::triangular_solve_retval<Side,TriangularViewType,Other>(derived(), other.derived());
 }
 
 namespace internal {
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h b/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h
index 525620bad..64d43e1b1 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ inline void stable_norm_kernel(const ExpressionType& bl, Scalar& ssq, Scalar& sc
   using std::max;
   Scalar maxCoeff = bl.cwiseAbs().maxCoeff();
   
-  if (maxCoeff>scale)
+  if(maxCoeff>scale)
   {
     ssq = ssq * numext::abs2(scale/maxCoeff);
     Scalar tmp = Scalar(1)/maxCoeff;
@@ -29,12 +29,21 @@ inline void stable_norm_kernel(const ExpressionType& bl, Scalar& ssq, Scalar& sc
       invScale = NumTraits<Scalar>::highest();
       scale = Scalar(1)/invScale;
     }
+    else if(maxCoeff>NumTraits<Scalar>::highest()) // we got a INF
+    {
+      invScale = Scalar(1);
+      scale = maxCoeff;
+    }
     else
     {
       scale = maxCoeff;
       invScale = tmp;
     }
   }
+  else if(maxCoeff!=maxCoeff) // we got a NaN
+  {
+    scale = maxCoeff;
+  }
   
   // TODO if the maxCoeff is much much smaller than the current scale,
   // then we can neglect this sub vector
@@ -55,7 +64,7 @@ blueNorm_impl(const EigenBase<Derived>& _vec)
   using std::abs;
   const Derived& vec(_vec.derived());
   static bool initialized = false;
-  static RealScalar b1, b2, s1m, s2m, overfl, rbig, relerr;
+  static RealScalar b1, b2, s1m, s2m, rbig, relerr;
   if(!initialized)
   {
     int ibeta, it, iemin, iemax, iexp;
@@ -84,7 +93,6 @@ blueNorm_impl(const EigenBase<Derived>& _vec)
     iexp  = - ((iemax+it)/2);
     s2m   = RealScalar(pow(RealScalar(ibeta),RealScalar(iexp)));    // scaling factor for upper range
 
-    overfl  = rbig*s2m;                                             // overflow boundary for abig
     eps     = RealScalar(pow(double(ibeta), 1-it));
     relerr  = sqrt(eps);                                            // tolerance for neglecting asml
     initialized = true;
@@ -101,13 +109,13 @@ blueNorm_impl(const EigenBase<Derived>& _vec)
     else if(ax < b1) asml += numext::abs2(ax*s1m);
     else             amed += numext::abs2(ax);
   }
+  if(amed!=amed)
+    return amed;  // we got a NaN
   if(abig > RealScalar(0))
   {
     abig = sqrt(abig);
-    if(abig > overfl)
-    {
-      return rbig;
-    }
+    if(abig > rbig) // overflow, or *this contains INF values
+      return abig;  // return INF
     if(amed > RealScalar(0))
     {
       abig = abig/s2m;
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
index d3d454e4e..187774978 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class Stride
 
 /** \brief Convenience specialization of Stride to specify only an inner stride
   * See class Map for some examples */
-template<int Value = Dynamic>
+template<int Value>
 class InnerStride : public Stride<0, Value>
 {
     typedef Stride<0, Value> Base;
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class InnerStride : public Stride<0, Value>
 
 /** \brief Convenience specialization of Stride to specify only an outer stride
   * See class Map for some examples */
-template<int Value = Dynamic>
+template<int Value>
 class OuterStride : public Stride<Value, 0>
 {
     typedef Stride<Value, 0> Base;
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Swap.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Swap.h
index d602fba65..3277cb5ba 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Swap.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Swap.h
@@ -12,129 +12,54 @@
 
 namespace Eigen { 
 
-/** \class SwapWrapper
-  * \ingroup Core_Module
-  *
-  * \internal
-  *
-  * \brief Internal helper class for swapping two expressions
-  */
 namespace internal {
-template<typename ExpressionType>
-struct traits<SwapWrapper<ExpressionType> > : traits<ExpressionType> {};
-}
 
-template<typename ExpressionType> class SwapWrapper
-  : public internal::dense_xpr_base<SwapWrapper<ExpressionType> >::type
+// Overload default assignPacket behavior for swapping them
+template<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT, typename SrcEvaluatorTypeT>
+class generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, swap_assign_op<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::Scalar>, Specialized>
+ : public generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, swap_assign_op<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::Scalar>, BuiltIn>
 {
-  public:
-
-    typedef typename internal::dense_xpr_base<SwapWrapper>::type Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(SwapWrapper)
-    typedef typename internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::type Packet;
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline SwapWrapper(ExpressionType& xpr) : m_expression(xpr) {}
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Index rows() const { return m_expression.rows(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Index cols() const { return m_expression.cols(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Index outerStride() const { return m_expression.outerStride(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Index innerStride() const { return m_expression.innerStride(); }
-    
-    typedef typename internal::conditional<
-                       internal::is_lvalue<ExpressionType>::value,
-                       Scalar,
-                       const Scalar
-                     >::type ScalarWithConstIfNotLvalue;
-                     
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline ScalarWithConstIfNotLvalue* data() { return m_expression.data(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const Scalar* data() const { return m_expression.data(); }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index rowId, Index colId)
-    {
-      return m_expression.const_cast_derived().coeffRef(rowId, colId);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index index)
-    {
-      return m_expression.const_cast_derived().coeffRef(index);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return m_expression.coeffRef(rowId, colId);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index index) const
-    {
-      return m_expression.coeffRef(index);
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void copyCoeff(Index rowId, Index colId, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(rowId >= 0 && rowId < rows()
-                         && colId >= 0 && colId < cols());
-      Scalar tmp = m_expression.coeff(rowId, colId);
-      m_expression.coeffRef(rowId, colId) = _other.coeff(rowId, colId);
-      _other.coeffRef(rowId, colId) = tmp;
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void copyCoeff(Index index, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < m_expression.size());
-      Scalar tmp = m_expression.coeff(index);
-      m_expression.coeffRef(index) = _other.coeff(index);
-      _other.coeffRef(index) = tmp;
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    void copyPacket(Index rowId, Index colId, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(rowId >= 0 && rowId < rows()
-                        && colId >= 0 && colId < cols());
-      Packet tmp = m_expression.template packet<StoreMode>(rowId, colId);
-      m_expression.template writePacket<StoreMode>(rowId, colId,
-        _other.template packet<LoadMode>(rowId, colId)
-      );
-      _other.template writePacket<LoadMode>(rowId, colId, tmp);
-    }
-
-    template<typename OtherDerived, int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
-    void copyPacket(Index index, const DenseBase<OtherDerived>& other)
-    {
-      OtherDerived& _other = other.const_cast_derived();
-      eigen_internal_assert(index >= 0 && index < m_expression.size());
-      Packet tmp = m_expression.template packet<StoreMode>(index);
-      m_expression.template writePacket<StoreMode>(index,
-        _other.template packet<LoadMode>(index)
-      );
-      _other.template writePacket<LoadMode>(index, tmp);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    ExpressionType& expression() const { return m_expression; }
-
-  protected:
-    ExpressionType& m_expression;
+protected:
+  typedef generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, swap_assign_op<typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::Scalar>, BuiltIn> Base;
+  typedef typename DstEvaluatorTypeT::PacketScalar PacketScalar;
+  using Base::m_dst;
+  using Base::m_src;
+  using Base::m_functor;
+  
+public:
+  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+  typedef typename Base::DstXprType DstXprType;
+  typedef swap_assign_op<Scalar> Functor;
+  
+  generic_dense_assignment_kernel(DstEvaluatorTypeT &dst, const SrcEvaluatorTypeT &src, const Functor &func, DstXprType& dstExpr)
+    : Base(dst, src, func, dstExpr)
+  {}
+  
+  template<int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
+  void assignPacket(Index row, Index col)
+  {
+    m_functor.template swapPacket<StoreMode,LoadMode,PacketScalar>(&m_dst.coeffRef(row,col), &const_cast<SrcEvaluatorTypeT&>(m_src).coeffRef(row,col));
+  }
+  
+  template<int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
+  void assignPacket(Index index)
+  {
+    m_functor.template swapPacket<StoreMode,LoadMode,PacketScalar>(&m_dst.coeffRef(index), &const_cast<SrcEvaluatorTypeT&>(m_src).coeffRef(index));
+  }
+  
+  // TODO find a simple way not to have to copy/paste this function from generic_dense_assignment_kernel, by simple I mean no CRTP (Gael)
+  template<int StoreMode, int LoadMode>
+  void assignPacketByOuterInner(Index outer, Index inner)
+  {
+    Index row = Base::rowIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner); 
+    Index col = Base::colIndexByOuterInner(outer, inner);
+    assignPacket<StoreMode,LoadMode>(row, col);
+  }
 };
 
+} // namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_SWAP_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Transpose.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Transpose.h
index aba3f6670..144bb2c01 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Transpose.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Transpose.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // for linear algebra.
 //
 // Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
-// Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+// Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
 //
 // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
 // Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ namespace Eigen {
 
 namespace internal {
 template<typename MatrixType>
-struct traits<Transpose<MatrixType> > : traits<MatrixType>
+struct traits<Transpose<MatrixType> >
 {
-  typedef typename MatrixType::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename traits<MatrixType>::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename traits<MatrixType>::Index Index;
   typedef typename nested<MatrixType>::type MatrixTypeNested;
   typedef typename remove_reference<MatrixTypeNested>::type MatrixTypeNestedPlain;
   typedef typename traits<MatrixType>::StorageKind StorageKind;
@@ -45,7 +46,6 @@ struct traits<Transpose<MatrixType> > : traits<MatrixType>
     Flags0 = MatrixTypeNestedPlain::Flags & ~(LvalueBit | NestByRefBit),
     Flags1 = Flags0 | FlagsLvalueBit,
     Flags = Flags1 ^ RowMajorBit,
-    CoeffReadCost = MatrixTypeNestedPlain::CoeffReadCost,
     InnerStrideAtCompileTime = inner_stride_at_compile_time<MatrixType>::ret,
     OuterStrideAtCompileTime = outer_stride_at_compile_time<MatrixType>::ret
   };
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ template<typename MatrixType> class Transpose
 
     typedef typename TransposeImpl<MatrixType,typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::StorageKind>::Base Base;
     EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Transpose)
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<MatrixType>::type NestedExpression;
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline Transpose(MatrixType& a_matrix) : m_matrix(a_matrix) {}
@@ -100,12 +101,22 @@ struct TransposeImpl_base<MatrixType, false>
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
+// Generic API dispatcher
+template<typename XprType, typename StorageKind>
+class TransposeImpl
+  : public internal::generic_xpr_base<Transpose<XprType> >::type
+{
+public:
+  typedef typename internal::generic_xpr_base<Transpose<XprType> >::type Base;
+};
+
 template<typename MatrixType> class TransposeImpl<MatrixType,Dense>
   : public internal::TransposeImpl_base<MatrixType>::type
 {
   public:
 
     typedef typename internal::TransposeImpl_base<MatrixType>::type Base;
+    using Base::coeffRef;
     EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Transpose<MatrixType>)
     EIGEN_INHERIT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATORS(TransposeImpl)
 
@@ -121,20 +132,7 @@ template<typename MatrixType> class TransposeImpl<MatrixType,Dense>
     inline ScalarWithConstIfNotLvalue* data() { return derived().nestedExpression().data(); }
     inline const Scalar* data() const { return derived().nestedExpression().data(); }
 
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline ScalarWithConstIfNotLvalue& coeffRef(Index rowId, Index colId)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(MatrixType)
-      return derived().nestedExpression().const_cast_derived().coeffRef(colId, rowId);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline ScalarWithConstIfNotLvalue& coeffRef(Index index)
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(MatrixType)
-      return derived().nestedExpression().const_cast_derived().coeffRef(index);
-    }
-
+    // FIXME: shall we keep the const version of coeffRef?
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline const Scalar& coeffRef(Index rowId, Index colId) const
     {
@@ -146,42 +144,6 @@ template<typename MatrixType> class TransposeImpl<MatrixType,Dense>
     {
       return derived().nestedExpression().coeffRef(index);
     }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline CoeffReturnType coeff(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return derived().nestedExpression().coeff(colId, rowId);
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline CoeffReturnType coeff(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().nestedExpression().coeff(index);
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    inline const PacketScalar packet(Index rowId, Index colId) const
-    {
-      return derived().nestedExpression().template packet<LoadMode>(colId, rowId);
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    inline void writePacket(Index rowId, Index colId, const PacketScalar& x)
-    {
-      derived().nestedExpression().const_cast_derived().template writePacket<LoadMode>(colId, rowId, x);
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    inline const PacketScalar packet(Index index) const
-    {
-      return derived().nestedExpression().template packet<LoadMode>(index);
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    inline void writePacket(Index index, const PacketScalar& x)
-    {
-      derived().nestedExpression().const_cast_derived().template writePacket<LoadMode>(index, x);
-    }
 };
 
 /** \returns an expression of the transpose of *this.
@@ -413,15 +375,15 @@ struct checkTransposeAliasing_impl<Derived, OtherDerived, false>
     }
 };
 
-} // end namespace internal
-
-template<typename Derived>
-template<typename OtherDerived>
-void DenseBase<Derived>::checkTransposeAliasing(const OtherDerived& other) const
+template<typename Dst, typename Src>
+void check_for_aliasing(const Dst &dst, const Src &src)
 {
-    internal::checkTransposeAliasing_impl<Derived, OtherDerived>::run(derived(), other);
+  internal::checkTransposeAliasing_impl<Dst, Src>::run(dst, src);
 }
-#endif
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
+#endif // EIGEN_NO_DEBUG
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h
index 72792d21b..0d315dd50 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h
@@ -32,17 +32,23 @@ template<typename Derived> class TriangularBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
 
     enum {
       Mode = internal::traits<Derived>::Mode,
-      CoeffReadCost = internal::traits<Derived>::CoeffReadCost,
       RowsAtCompileTime = internal::traits<Derived>::RowsAtCompileTime,
       ColsAtCompileTime = internal::traits<Derived>::ColsAtCompileTime,
       MaxRowsAtCompileTime = internal::traits<Derived>::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
-      MaxColsAtCompileTime = internal::traits<Derived>::MaxColsAtCompileTime
+      MaxColsAtCompileTime = internal::traits<Derived>::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
+      
+      SizeAtCompileTime = (internal::size_at_compile_time<internal::traits<Derived>::RowsAtCompileTime,
+                                                   internal::traits<Derived>::ColsAtCompileTime>::ret)
+        /**< This is equal to the number of coefficients, i.e. the number of
+          * rows times the number of columns, or to \a Dynamic if this is not
+          * known at compile-time. \sa RowsAtCompileTime, ColsAtCompileTime */
     };
     typedef typename internal::traits<Derived>::Scalar Scalar;
     typedef typename internal::traits<Derived>::StorageKind StorageKind;
     typedef typename internal::traits<Derived>::Index Index;
-    typedef typename internal::traits<Derived>::DenseMatrixType DenseMatrixType;
+    typedef typename internal::traits<Derived>::FullMatrixType DenseMatrixType;
     typedef DenseMatrixType DenseType;
+    typedef Derived const& Nested;
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline TriangularBase() { eigen_assert(!((Mode&UnitDiag) && (Mode&ZeroDiag))); }
@@ -55,6 +61,14 @@ template<typename Derived> class TriangularBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
     inline Index outerStride() const { return derived().outerStride(); }
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline Index innerStride() const { return derived().innerStride(); }
+    
+    // dummy resize function
+    void resize(Index nbRows, Index nbCols)
+    {
+      EIGEN_UNUSED_VARIABLE(nbRows);
+      EIGEN_UNUSED_VARIABLE(nbCols);
+      eigen_assert(nbRows==rows() && nbCols==nbCols);
+    }
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const  { return derived().coeff(row,col); }
@@ -155,49 +169,41 @@ struct traits<TriangularView<MatrixType, _Mode> > : traits<MatrixType>
   typedef typename nested<MatrixType>::type MatrixTypeNested;
   typedef typename remove_reference<MatrixTypeNested>::type MatrixTypeNestedNonRef;
   typedef typename remove_all<MatrixTypeNested>::type MatrixTypeNestedCleaned;
+  typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject FullMatrixType;
   typedef MatrixType ExpressionType;
-  typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject DenseMatrixType;
   enum {
     Mode = _Mode,
-    Flags = (MatrixTypeNestedCleaned::Flags & (HereditaryBits) & (~(PacketAccessBit | DirectAccessBit | LinearAccessBit))) | Mode,
-    CoeffReadCost = MatrixTypeNestedCleaned::CoeffReadCost
+    Flags = (MatrixTypeNestedCleaned::Flags & (HereditaryBits | LvalueBit) & (~(PacketAccessBit | DirectAccessBit | LinearAccessBit)))
   };
 };
 }
 
-template<int Mode, bool LhsIsTriangular,
-         typename Lhs, bool LhsIsVector,
-         typename Rhs, bool RhsIsVector>
-struct TriangularProduct;
+template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode, typename StorageKind> class TriangularViewImpl;
 
 template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularView
-  : public TriangularBase<TriangularView<_MatrixType, _Mode> >
+  : public TriangularViewImpl<_MatrixType, _Mode, typename internal::traits<_MatrixType>::StorageKind >
 {
   public:
 
-    typedef TriangularBase<TriangularView> Base;
+    typedef TriangularViewImpl<_MatrixType, _Mode, typename internal::traits<_MatrixType>::StorageKind > Base;
     typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::Scalar Scalar;
-
     typedef _MatrixType MatrixType;
-    typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::DenseMatrixType DenseMatrixType;
-    typedef DenseMatrixType PlainObject;
 
   protected:
     typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::MatrixTypeNested MatrixTypeNested;
     typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::MatrixTypeNestedNonRef MatrixTypeNestedNonRef;
-    typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::MatrixTypeNestedCleaned MatrixTypeNestedCleaned;
 
     typedef typename internal::remove_all<typename MatrixType::ConjugateReturnType>::type MatrixConjugateReturnType;
     
   public:
-    using Base::evalToLazy;
-  
 
     typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::StorageKind StorageKind;
     typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::Index Index;
+    typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularView>::MatrixTypeNestedCleaned NestedExpression;
 
     enum {
       Mode = _Mode,
+      Flags = internal::traits<TriangularView>::Flags,
       TransposeMode = (Mode & Upper ? Lower : 0)
                     | (Mode & Lower ? Upper : 0)
                     | (Mode & (UnitDiag))
@@ -207,44 +213,160 @@ template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularView
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline TriangularView(const MatrixType& matrix) : m_matrix(matrix)
     {}
+    
+    using Base::operator=;
+    TriangularView& operator=(const TriangularView &other)
+    { return Base::operator=(other); }
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline Index rows() const { return m_matrix.rows(); }
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     inline Index cols() const { return m_matrix.cols(); }
+
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    const NestedExpression& nestedExpression() const { return m_matrix; }
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    NestedExpression& nestedExpression() { return *const_cast<NestedExpression*>(&m_matrix); }
+
+    /** \sa MatrixBase::conjugate() */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline TriangularView<MatrixConjugateReturnType,Mode> conjugate()
+    { return m_matrix.conjugate(); }
+    /** \sa MatrixBase::conjugate() const */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline const TriangularView<MatrixConjugateReturnType,Mode> conjugate() const
+    { return m_matrix.conjugate(); }
+
+    /** \sa MatrixBase::adjoint() const */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline const TriangularView<const typename MatrixType::AdjointReturnType,TransposeMode> adjoint() const
+    { return m_matrix.adjoint(); }
+
+    /** \sa MatrixBase::transpose() */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline TriangularView<Transpose<MatrixType>,TransposeMode> transpose()
+    {
+      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(MatrixType)
+      return m_matrix.const_cast_derived().transpose();
+    }
+    /** \sa MatrixBase::transpose() const */
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline const TriangularView<Transpose<MatrixType>,TransposeMode> transpose() const
+    {
+      return m_matrix.transpose();
+    }
+
+    template<typename Other>
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline const Solve<TriangularView, Other> 
+    solve(const MatrixBase<Other>& other) const
+    { return Solve<TriangularView, Other>(*this, other.derived()); }
+    
+  // workaround MSVC ICE
+  #ifdef _MSC_VER
+    template<int Side, typename Other>
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    inline const internal::triangular_solve_retval<Side,TriangularView, Other>
+    solve(const MatrixBase<Other>& other) const
+    { return Base::template solve<Side>(other); }
+  #else
+    using Base::solve;
+  #endif
+
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    const SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode> selfadjointView() const
+    {
+      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((Mode&UnitDiag)==0,PROGRAMMING_ERROR);
+      return SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode>(m_matrix);
+    }
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode> selfadjointView()
+    {
+      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((Mode&UnitDiag)==0,PROGRAMMING_ERROR);
+      return SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode>(m_matrix);
+    }
+
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    Scalar determinant() const
+    {
+      if (Mode & UnitDiag)
+        return 1;
+      else if (Mode & ZeroDiag)
+        return 0;
+      else
+        return m_matrix.diagonal().prod();
+    }
+      
+  protected:
+
+    MatrixTypeNested m_matrix;
+};
+
+template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularViewImpl<_MatrixType,_Mode,Dense>
+  : public TriangularBase<TriangularView<_MatrixType, _Mode> >
+{
+  public:
+
+    typedef TriangularView<_MatrixType, _Mode> TriangularViewType;
+    typedef TriangularBase<TriangularViewType> Base;
+    typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularViewType>::Scalar Scalar;
+
+    typedef _MatrixType MatrixType;
+    typedef typename MatrixType::PlainObject DenseMatrixType;
+    typedef DenseMatrixType PlainObject;
+
+  public:
+    using Base::evalToLazy;
+    using Base::derived;
+
+    typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularViewType>::StorageKind StorageKind;
+    typedef typename internal::traits<TriangularViewType>::Index Index;
+
+    enum {
+      Mode = _Mode,
+      Flags = internal::traits<TriangularViewType>::Flags
+    };
+
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Index outerStride() const { return m_matrix.outerStride(); }
+    inline Index outerStride() const { return derived().nestedExpression().outerStride(); }
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline Index innerStride() const { return m_matrix.innerStride(); }
+    inline Index innerStride() const { return derived().nestedExpression().innerStride(); }
 
     /** \sa MatrixBase::operator+=() */    
     template<typename Other>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView&  operator+=(const DenseBase<Other>& other) { return *this = m_matrix + other.derived(); }
+    TriangularViewType&  operator+=(const DenseBase<Other>& other) {
+      internal::call_assignment_no_alias(derived(), other.derived(), internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>());
+      return derived();
+    }
     /** \sa MatrixBase::operator-=() */
     template<typename Other>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView&  operator-=(const DenseBase<Other>& other) { return *this = m_matrix - other.derived(); }
+    TriangularViewType&  operator-=(const DenseBase<Other>& other) {
+      internal::call_assignment_no_alias(derived(), other.derived(), internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>());
+      return derived();
+    }
+    
     /** \sa MatrixBase::operator*=() */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView&  operator*=(const typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::Scalar& other) { return *this = m_matrix * other; }
+    TriangularViewType&  operator*=(const typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::Scalar& other) { return *this = derived().nestedExpression() * other; }
     /** \sa MatrixBase::operator/=() */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView&  operator/=(const typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::Scalar& other) { return *this = m_matrix / other; }
+    TriangularViewType&  operator/=(const typename internal::traits<MatrixType>::Scalar& other) { return *this = derived().nestedExpression() / other; }
 
     /** \sa MatrixBase::fill() */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void fill(const Scalar& value) { setConstant(value); }
     /** \sa MatrixBase::setConstant() */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView& setConstant(const Scalar& value)
-    { return *this = MatrixType::Constant(rows(), cols(), value); }
+    TriangularViewType& setConstant(const Scalar& value)
+    { return *this = MatrixType::Constant(derived().rows(), derived().cols(), value); }
     /** \sa MatrixBase::setZero() */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView& setZero() { return setConstant(Scalar(0)); }
+    TriangularViewType& setZero() { return setConstant(Scalar(0)); }
     /** \sa MatrixBase::setOnes() */
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView& setOnes() { return setConstant(Scalar(1)); }
+    TriangularViewType& setOnes() { return setConstant(Scalar(1)); }
 
     /** \sa MatrixBase::coeff()
       * \warning the coordinates must fit into the referenced triangular part
@@ -253,7 +375,7 @@ template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularView
     inline Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const
     {
       Base::check_coordinates_internal(row, col);
-      return m_matrix.coeff(row, col);
+      return derived().nestedExpression().coeff(row, col);
     }
 
     /** \sa MatrixBase::coeffRef()
@@ -263,26 +385,21 @@ template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularView
     inline Scalar& coeffRef(Index row, Index col)
     {
       Base::check_coordinates_internal(row, col);
-      return m_matrix.const_cast_derived().coeffRef(row, col);
+      return derived().nestedExpression().const_cast_derived().coeffRef(row, col);
     }
 
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const MatrixTypeNestedCleaned& nestedExpression() const { return m_matrix; }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    MatrixTypeNestedCleaned& nestedExpression() { return *const_cast<MatrixTypeNestedCleaned*>(&m_matrix); }
-
     /** Assigns a triangular matrix to a triangular part of a dense matrix */
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView& operator=(const TriangularBase<OtherDerived>& other);
+    TriangularViewType& operator=(const TriangularBase<OtherDerived>& other);
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView& operator=(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other);
+    TriangularViewType& operator=(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other);
 
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularView& operator=(const TriangularView& other)
-    { return *this = other.nestedExpression(); }
+    TriangularViewType& operator=(const TriangularViewImpl& other)
+    { return *this = other.derived().nestedExpression(); }
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
@@ -290,378 +407,88 @@ template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularView
 
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    void lazyAssign(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other);
-
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::conjugate() */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline TriangularView<MatrixConjugateReturnType,Mode> conjugate()
-    { return m_matrix.conjugate(); }
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::conjugate() const */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const TriangularView<MatrixConjugateReturnType,Mode> conjugate() const
-    { return m_matrix.conjugate(); }
-
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::adjoint() const */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const TriangularView<const typename MatrixType::AdjointReturnType,TransposeMode> adjoint() const
-    { return m_matrix.adjoint(); }
-
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::transpose() */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline TriangularView<Transpose<MatrixType>,TransposeMode> transpose()
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT_LVALUE(MatrixType)
-      return m_matrix.const_cast_derived().transpose();
-    }
-    /** \sa MatrixBase::transpose() const */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const TriangularView<Transpose<MatrixType>,TransposeMode> transpose() const
-    {
-      return m_matrix.transpose();
-    }
+    void lazyAssign(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other);  
 
     /** Efficient triangular matrix times vector/matrix product */
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularProduct<Mode, true, MatrixType, false, OtherDerived, OtherDerived::ColsAtCompileTime==1>
+    const Product<TriangularViewType,OtherDerived>
     operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& rhs) const
     {
-      return TriangularProduct
-              <Mode, true, MatrixType, false, OtherDerived, OtherDerived::ColsAtCompileTime==1>
-              (m_matrix, rhs.derived());
+      return Product<TriangularViewType,OtherDerived>(derived(), rhs.derived());
     }
 
     /** Efficient vector/matrix times triangular matrix product */
     template<typename OtherDerived> friend
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    TriangularProduct<Mode, false, OtherDerived, OtherDerived::RowsAtCompileTime==1, MatrixType, false>
-    operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& lhs, const TriangularView& rhs)
+    const Product<OtherDerived,TriangularViewType>
+    operator*(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& lhs, const TriangularViewImpl& rhs)
     {
-      return TriangularProduct
-              <Mode, false, OtherDerived, OtherDerived::RowsAtCompileTime==1, MatrixType, false>
-              (lhs.derived(),rhs.m_matrix);
+      return Product<OtherDerived,TriangularViewType>(lhs.derived(),rhs.derived());
     }
 
     template<int Side, typename Other>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const internal::triangular_solve_retval<Side,TriangularView, Other>
+    inline const internal::triangular_solve_retval<Side,TriangularViewType, Other>
     solve(const MatrixBase<Other>& other) const;
 
     template<int Side, typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void solveInPlace(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other) const;
 
-    template<typename Other>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline const internal::triangular_solve_retval<OnTheLeft,TriangularView, Other> 
-    solve(const MatrixBase<Other>& other) const
-    { return solve<OnTheLeft>(other); }
-
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void solveInPlace(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other) const
     { return solveInPlace<OnTheLeft>(other); }
 
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode> selfadjointView() const
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((Mode&UnitDiag)==0,PROGRAMMING_ERROR);
-      return SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode>(m_matrix);
-    }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode> selfadjointView()
-    {
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((Mode&UnitDiag)==0,PROGRAMMING_ERROR);
-      return SelfAdjointView<MatrixTypeNestedNonRef,Mode>(m_matrix);
-    }
-
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void swap(TriangularBase<OtherDerived> const & other)
     {
-      TriangularView<SwapWrapper<MatrixType>,Mode>(const_cast<MatrixType&>(m_matrix)).lazyAssign(other.derived());
+      call_assignment(derived(), other.const_cast_derived(), internal::swap_assign_op<Scalar>());
     }
 
+    // TODO: this overload is ambiguous and it should be deprecated (Gael)
     template<typename OtherDerived>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
     void swap(MatrixBase<OtherDerived> const & other)
     {
-      SwapWrapper<MatrixType> swaper(const_cast<MatrixType&>(m_matrix));
-      TriangularView<SwapWrapper<MatrixType>,Mode>(swaper).lazyAssign(other.derived());
+      call_assignment(derived(), other.const_cast_derived(), internal::swap_assign_op<Scalar>());
     }
 
+    template<typename RhsType, typename DstType>
     EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    Scalar determinant() const
-    {
-      if (Mode & UnitDiag)
-        return 1;
-      else if (Mode & ZeroDiag)
-        return 0;
-      else
-        return m_matrix.diagonal().prod();
-    }
-    
-    // TODO simplify the following:
-    template<typename ProductDerived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& operator=(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, Lhs,Rhs>& other)
-    {
-      setZero();
-      return assignProduct(other,1);
-    }
-    
-    template<typename ProductDerived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& operator+=(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, Lhs,Rhs>& other)
-    {
-      return assignProduct(other,1);
-    }
-    
-    template<typename ProductDerived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& operator-=(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, Lhs,Rhs>& other)
-    {
-      return assignProduct(other,-1);
-    }
-    
-    
-    template<typename ProductDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& operator=(const ScaledProduct<ProductDerived>& other)
-    {
-      setZero();
-      return assignProduct(other,other.alpha());
+    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void _solve_impl(const RhsType &rhs, DstType &dst) const {
+      if(!(internal::is_same<RhsType,DstType>::value && internal::extract_data(dst) == internal::extract_data(rhs)))
+        dst = rhs;
+      this->solveInPlace(dst);
     }
-    
-    template<typename ProductDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& operator+=(const ScaledProduct<ProductDerived>& other)
-    {
-      return assignProduct(other,other.alpha());
-    }
-    
-    template<typename ProductDerived>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& operator-=(const ScaledProduct<ProductDerived>& other)
-    {
-      return assignProduct(other,-other.alpha());
-    }
-    
-  protected:
-    
-    template<typename ProductDerived, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularView& assignProduct(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, Lhs,Rhs>& prod, const Scalar& alpha);
 
-    MatrixTypeNested m_matrix;
+    template<typename ProductType>
+    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE TriangularViewType& _assignProduct(const ProductType& prod, const Scalar& alpha);
 };
 
 /***************************************************************************
 * Implementation of triangular evaluation/assignment
 ***************************************************************************/
 
-namespace internal {
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, unsigned int Mode, int UnrollCount, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector
-{
-  enum {
-    col = (UnrollCount-1) / Derived1::RowsAtCompileTime,
-    row = (UnrollCount-1) % Derived1::RowsAtCompileTime
-  };
-  
-  typedef typename Derived1::Scalar Scalar;
-
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
-
-    eigen_assert( Mode == Upper || Mode == Lower
-            || Mode == StrictlyUpper || Mode == StrictlyLower
-            || Mode == UnitUpper || Mode == UnitLower);
-    if((Mode == Upper && row <= col)
-    || (Mode == Lower && row >= col)
-    || (Mode == StrictlyUpper && row < col)
-    || (Mode == StrictlyLower && row > col)
-    || (Mode == UnitUpper && row < col)
-    || (Mode == UnitLower && row > col))
-      dst.copyCoeff(row, col, src);
-    else if(ClearOpposite)
-    {
-      if (Mode&UnitDiag && row==col)
-        dst.coeffRef(row, col) = Scalar(1);
-      else
-        dst.coeffRef(row, col) = Scalar(0);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-// prevent buggy user code from causing an infinite recursion
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, unsigned int Mode, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, 0, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &, const Derived2 &) {}
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Upper, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  typedef typename Derived1::Scalar Scalar;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, dst.rows()-1);
-      for(Index i = 0; i <= maxi; ++i)
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-      if (ClearOpposite)
-        for(Index i = maxi+1; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-          dst.coeffRef(i, j) = Scalar(0);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Lower, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      for(Index i = j; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, dst.rows());
-      if (ClearOpposite)
-        for(Index i = 0; i < maxi; ++i)
-          dst.coeffRef(i, j) = static_cast<typename Derived1::Scalar>(0);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, StrictlyUpper, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  typedef typename Derived1::Scalar Scalar;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, dst.rows());
-      for(Index i = 0; i < maxi; ++i)
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-      if (ClearOpposite)
-        for(Index i = maxi; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-          dst.coeffRef(i, j) = Scalar(0);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, StrictlyLower, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      for(Index i = j+1; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, dst.rows()-1);
-      if (ClearOpposite)
-        for(Index i = 0; i <= maxi; ++i)
-          dst.coeffRef(i, j) = static_cast<typename Derived1::Scalar>(0);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, UnitUpper, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, dst.rows());
-      for(Index i = 0; i < maxi; ++i)
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-      if (ClearOpposite)
-      {
-        for(Index i = maxi+1; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-          dst.coeffRef(i, j) = 0;
-      }
-    }
-    dst.diagonal().setOnes();
-  }
-};
-template<typename Derived1, typename Derived2, bool ClearOpposite>
-struct triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, UnitLower, Dynamic, ClearOpposite>
-{
-  typedef typename Derived1::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-  static inline void run(Derived1 &dst, const Derived2 &src)
-  {
-    for(Index j = 0; j < dst.cols(); ++j)
-    {
-      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, dst.rows());
-      for(Index i = maxi+1; i < dst.rows(); ++i)
-        dst.copyCoeff(i, j, src);
-      if (ClearOpposite)
-      {
-        for(Index i = 0; i < maxi; ++i)
-          dst.coeffRef(i, j) = 0;
-      }
-    }
-    dst.diagonal().setOnes();
-  }
-};
-
-} // end namespace internal
-
 // FIXME should we keep that possibility
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 inline TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>&
-TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>::operator=(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other)
+TriangularViewImpl<MatrixType, Mode, Dense>::operator=(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  if(OtherDerived::Flags & EvalBeforeAssigningBit)
-  {
-    typename internal::plain_matrix_type<OtherDerived>::type other_evaluated(other.rows(), other.cols());
-    other_evaluated.template triangularView<Mode>().lazyAssign(other.derived());
-    lazyAssign(other_evaluated);
-  }
-  else
-    lazyAssign(other.derived());
-  return *this;
+  internal::call_assignment_no_alias(derived(), other.derived(), internal::assign_op<Scalar>());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 // FIXME should we keep that possibility
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
-void TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>::lazyAssign(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other)
+void TriangularViewImpl<MatrixType, Mode, Dense>::lazyAssign(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  enum {
-    unroll = MatrixType::SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
-          && internal::traits<OtherDerived>::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
-          && MatrixType::SizeAtCompileTime*internal::traits<OtherDerived>::CoeffReadCost/2 <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
-  };
-  eigen_assert(m_matrix.rows() == other.rows() && m_matrix.cols() == other.cols());
-
-  internal::triangular_assignment_selector
-    <MatrixType, OtherDerived, int(Mode),
-    unroll ? int(MatrixType::SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic,
-    false // do not change the opposite triangular part
-    >::run(m_matrix.const_cast_derived(), other.derived());
+  internal::call_assignment(derived().noalias(), other.template triangularView<Mode>());
 }
 
 
@@ -669,37 +496,19 @@ void TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>::lazyAssign(const MatrixBase<OtherDerived>
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
 inline TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>&
-TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>::operator=(const TriangularBase<OtherDerived>& other)
+TriangularViewImpl<MatrixType, Mode, Dense>::operator=(const TriangularBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
   eigen_assert(Mode == int(OtherDerived::Mode));
-  if(internal::traits<OtherDerived>::Flags & EvalBeforeAssigningBit)
-  {
-    typename OtherDerived::DenseMatrixType other_evaluated(other.rows(), other.cols());
-    other_evaluated.template triangularView<Mode>().lazyAssign(other.derived().nestedExpression());
-    lazyAssign(other_evaluated);
-  }
-  else
-    lazyAssign(other.derived().nestedExpression());
-  return *this;
+  internal::call_assignment(derived(), other.derived());
+  return derived();
 }
 
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
 template<typename OtherDerived>
-void TriangularView<MatrixType, Mode>::lazyAssign(const TriangularBase<OtherDerived>& other)
+void TriangularViewImpl<MatrixType, Mode, Dense>::lazyAssign(const TriangularBase<OtherDerived>& other)
 {
-  enum {
-    unroll = MatrixType::SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
-                   && internal::traits<OtherDerived>::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
-                   && MatrixType::SizeAtCompileTime * internal::traits<OtherDerived>::CoeffReadCost / 2
-                        <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
-  };
-  eigen_assert(m_matrix.rows() == other.rows() && m_matrix.cols() == other.cols());
-
-  internal::triangular_assignment_selector
-    <MatrixType, OtherDerived, int(Mode),
-    unroll ? int(MatrixType::SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic,
-    false // preserve the opposite triangular part
-    >::run(m_matrix.const_cast_derived(), other.derived().nestedExpression());
+  eigen_assert(Mode == int(OtherDerived::Mode));
+  internal::call_assignment(derived().noalias(), other.derived());
 }
 
 /***************************************************************************
@@ -722,27 +531,6 @@ void TriangularBase<Derived>::evalTo(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const
     evalToLazy(other.derived());
 }
 
-/** Assigns a triangular or selfadjoint matrix to a dense matrix.
-  * If the matrix is triangular, the opposite part is set to zero. */
-template<typename Derived>
-template<typename DenseDerived>
-void TriangularBase<Derived>::evalToLazy(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const
-{
-  enum {
-    unroll = DenseDerived::SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
-                   && internal::traits<Derived>::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
-                   && DenseDerived::SizeAtCompileTime * internal::traits<Derived>::CoeffReadCost / 2
-                        <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
-  };
-  other.derived().resize(this->rows(), this->cols());
-
-  internal::triangular_assignment_selector
-    <DenseDerived, typename internal::traits<Derived>::MatrixTypeNestedCleaned, Derived::Mode,
-    unroll ? int(DenseDerived::SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic,
-    true // clear the opposite triangular part
-    >::run(other.derived(), derived().nestedExpression());
-}
-
 /***************************************************************************
 * Implementation of TriangularView methods
 ***************************************************************************/
@@ -831,6 +619,293 @@ bool MatrixBase<Derived>::isLowerTriangular(const RealScalar& prec) const
   return true;
 }
 
+
+/***************************************************************************
+****************************************************************************
+* Evaluators and Assignment of triangular expressions
+***************************************************************************
+***************************************************************************/
+
+namespace internal {
+
+  
+// TODO currently a triangular expression has the form TriangularView<.,.>
+//      in the future triangular-ness should be defined by the expression traits
+//      such that Transpose<TriangularView<.,.> > is valid. (currently TriangularBase::transpose() is overloaded to make it work)
+template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
+struct evaluator_traits<TriangularView<MatrixType,Mode> >
+{
+  typedef typename storage_kind_to_evaluator_kind<typename MatrixType::StorageKind>::Kind Kind;
+  typedef typename glue_shapes<typename evaluator_traits<MatrixType>::Shape, TriangularShape>::type Shape;
+  
+  // 1 if assignment A = B assumes aliasing when B is of type T and thus B needs to be evaluated into a
+  // temporary; 0 if not.
+  static const int AssumeAliasing = 0;
+};
+
+template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode>
+struct unary_evaluator<TriangularView<MatrixType,Mode>, IndexBased>
+ : evaluator<typename internal::remove_all<MatrixType>::type>
+{
+  typedef TriangularView<MatrixType,Mode> XprType;
+  typedef evaluator<typename internal::remove_all<MatrixType>::type> Base;
+  typedef evaluator<XprType> type;
+  unary_evaluator(const XprType &xpr) : Base(xpr.nestedExpression()) {}
+};
+
+// Additional assignment kinds:
+struct Triangular2Triangular    {};
+struct Triangular2Dense         {};
+struct Dense2Triangular         {};
+
+
+template<typename Kernel, unsigned int Mode, int UnrollCount, bool ClearOpposite> struct triangular_assignment_loop;
+
+ 
+/** \internal Specialization of the dense assignment kernel for triangular matrices.
+  * The main difference is that the triangular, diagonal, and opposite parts are processed through three different functions.
+  * \tparam UpLo must be either Lower or Upper
+  * \tparam Mode must be either 0, UnitDiag, ZeroDiag, or SelfAdjoint
+  */
+template<int UpLo, int Mode, int SetOpposite, typename DstEvaluatorTypeT, typename SrcEvaluatorTypeT, typename Functor, int Version = Specialized>
+class triangular_dense_assignment_kernel : public generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, Functor, Version>
+{
+protected:
+  typedef generic_dense_assignment_kernel<DstEvaluatorTypeT, SrcEvaluatorTypeT, Functor, Version> Base;
+  typedef typename Base::DstXprType DstXprType;
+  typedef typename Base::SrcXprType SrcXprType;
+  using Base::m_dst;
+  using Base::m_src;
+  using Base::m_functor;
+public:
+  
+  typedef typename Base::DstEvaluatorType DstEvaluatorType;
+  typedef typename Base::SrcEvaluatorType SrcEvaluatorType;
+  typedef typename Base::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+  typedef typename Base::AssignmentTraits AssignmentTraits;
+  
+  
+  triangular_dense_assignment_kernel(DstEvaluatorType &dst, const SrcEvaluatorType &src, const Functor &func, DstXprType& dstExpr)
+    : Base(dst, src, func, dstExpr)
+  {}
+  
+#ifdef EIGEN_INTERNAL_DEBUGGING
+  void assignCoeff(Index row, Index col)
+  {
+    eigen_internal_assert(row!=col);
+    Base::assignCoeff(row,col);
+  }
+#else
+  using Base::assignCoeff;
+#endif
+  
+  void assignDiagonalCoeff(Index id)
+  {
+         if(Mode==UnitDiag && SetOpposite) m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(id,id), Scalar(1));
+    else if(Mode==ZeroDiag && SetOpposite) m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(id,id), Scalar(0));
+    else if(Mode==0)                       Base::assignCoeff(id,id);
+  }
+  
+  void assignOppositeCoeff(Index row, Index col)
+  { 
+    eigen_internal_assert(row!=col);
+    if(SetOpposite)
+      m_functor.assignCoeff(m_dst.coeffRef(row,col), Scalar(0));
+  }
+};
+
+template<int Mode, bool SetOpposite, typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor>
+void call_triangular_assignment_loop(const DstXprType& dst, const SrcXprType& src, const Functor &func)
+{
+  eigen_assert(dst.rows() == src.rows() && dst.cols() == src.cols());
+  
+  typedef typename evaluator<DstXprType>::type DstEvaluatorType;
+  typedef typename evaluator<SrcXprType>::type SrcEvaluatorType;
+
+  DstEvaluatorType dstEvaluator(dst);
+  SrcEvaluatorType srcEvaluator(src);
+    
+  typedef triangular_dense_assignment_kernel< Mode&(Lower|Upper),Mode&(UnitDiag|ZeroDiag|SelfAdjoint),SetOpposite,
+                                              DstEvaluatorType,SrcEvaluatorType,Functor> Kernel;
+  Kernel kernel(dstEvaluator, srcEvaluator, func, dst.const_cast_derived());
+  
+  enum {
+      unroll = DstXprType::SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
+            && SrcEvaluatorType::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
+            && DstXprType::SizeAtCompileTime * SrcEvaluatorType::CoeffReadCost / 2 <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT
+    };
+  
+  triangular_assignment_loop<Kernel, Mode, unroll ? int(DstXprType::SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic, SetOpposite>::run(kernel);
+}
+
+template<int Mode, bool SetOpposite, typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType>
+void call_triangular_assignment_loop(const DstXprType& dst, const SrcXprType& src)
+{
+  call_triangular_assignment_loop<Mode,SetOpposite>(dst, src, internal::assign_op<typename DstXprType::Scalar>());
+}
+
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<TriangularShape,TriangularShape> { typedef Triangular2Triangular Kind; };
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<DenseShape,TriangularShape>      { typedef Triangular2Dense      Kind; };
+template<> struct AssignmentKind<TriangularShape,DenseShape>      { typedef Dense2Triangular      Kind; };
+
+
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, SrcXprType, Functor, Triangular2Triangular, Scalar>
+{
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const Functor &func)
+  {
+    eigen_assert(int(DstXprType::Mode) == int(SrcXprType::Mode));
+    
+    call_triangular_assignment_loop<DstXprType::Mode, false>(dst, src, func);  
+  }
+};
+
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, SrcXprType, Functor, Triangular2Dense, Scalar>
+{
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const Functor &func)
+  {
+    call_triangular_assignment_loop<SrcXprType::Mode, (SrcXprType::Mode&SelfAdjoint)==0>(dst, src, func);  
+  }
+};
+
+template< typename DstXprType, typename SrcXprType, typename Functor, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, SrcXprType, Functor, Dense2Triangular, Scalar>
+{
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const Functor &func)
+  {
+    call_triangular_assignment_loop<DstXprType::Mode, false>(dst, src, func);  
+  }
+};
+
+
+template<typename Kernel, unsigned int Mode, int UnrollCount, bool SetOpposite>
+struct triangular_assignment_loop
+{
+  // FIXME: this is not very clean, perhaps this information should be provided by the kernel?
+  typedef typename Kernel::DstEvaluatorType DstEvaluatorType;
+  typedef typename DstEvaluatorType::XprType DstXprType;
+  
+  enum {
+    col = (UnrollCount-1) / DstXprType::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    row = (UnrollCount-1) % DstXprType::RowsAtCompileTime
+  };
+  
+  typedef typename Kernel::Scalar Scalar;
+
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+  static inline void run(Kernel &kernel)
+  {
+    triangular_assignment_loop<Kernel, Mode, UnrollCount-1, SetOpposite>::run(kernel);
+    
+    if(row==col)
+      kernel.assignDiagonalCoeff(row);
+    else if( ((Mode&Lower) && row>col) || ((Mode&Upper) && row<col) )
+      kernel.assignCoeff(row,col);
+    else if(SetOpposite)
+      kernel.assignOppositeCoeff(row,col);
+  }
+};
+
+// prevent buggy user code from causing an infinite recursion
+template<typename Kernel, unsigned int Mode, bool SetOpposite>
+struct triangular_assignment_loop<Kernel, Mode, 0, SetOpposite>
+{
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+  static inline void run(Kernel &) {}
+};
+
+
+
+// TODO: experiment with a recursive assignment procedure splitting the current
+//       triangular part into one rectangular and two triangular parts.
+
+
+template<typename Kernel, unsigned int Mode, bool SetOpposite>
+struct triangular_assignment_loop<Kernel, Mode, Dynamic, SetOpposite>
+{
+  typedef typename Kernel::Index Index;
+  typedef typename Kernel::Scalar Scalar;
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
+  static inline void run(Kernel &kernel)
+  {
+    for(Index j = 0; j < kernel.cols(); ++j)
+    {
+      Index maxi = (std::min)(j, kernel.rows());
+      Index i = 0;
+      if (((Mode&Lower) && SetOpposite) || (Mode&Upper))
+      {
+        for(; i < maxi; ++i)
+          if(Mode&Upper) kernel.assignCoeff(i, j);
+          else           kernel.assignOppositeCoeff(i, j);
+      }
+      else
+        i = maxi;
+      
+      if(i<kernel.rows()) // then i==j
+        kernel.assignDiagonalCoeff(i++);
+      
+      if (((Mode&Upper) && SetOpposite) || (Mode&Lower))
+      {
+        for(; i < kernel.rows(); ++i)
+          if(Mode&Lower) kernel.assignCoeff(i, j);
+          else           kernel.assignOppositeCoeff(i, j);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
+/** Assigns a triangular or selfadjoint matrix to a dense matrix.
+  * If the matrix is triangular, the opposite part is set to zero. */
+template<typename Derived>
+template<typename DenseDerived>
+void TriangularBase<Derived>::evalToLazy(MatrixBase<DenseDerived> &other) const
+{
+  other.derived().resize(this->rows(), this->cols());
+  internal::call_triangular_assignment_loop<Derived::Mode,(Derived::Mode&SelfAdjoint)==0 /* SetOpposite */>(other.derived(), derived().nestedExpression());
+}
+
+namespace internal {
+  
+// Triangular = Product
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct>, internal::assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Triangular, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    dst.setZero();
+    dst._assignProduct(src, 1);
+  }
+};
+
+// Triangular += Product
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct>, internal::add_assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Triangular, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::add_assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    dst._assignProduct(src, 1);
+  }
+};
+
+// Triangular -= Product
+template< typename DstXprType, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Scalar>
+struct Assignment<DstXprType, Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct>, internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar>, Dense2Triangular, Scalar>
+{
+  typedef Product<Lhs,Rhs,DefaultProduct> SrcXprType;
+  static void run(DstXprType &dst, const SrcXprType &src, const internal::sub_assign_op<Scalar> &)
+  {
+    dst._assignProduct(src, -1);
+  }
+};
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_TRIANGULARMATRIX_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/VectorwiseOp.h b/Eigen/src/Core/VectorwiseOp.h
index 52eb4f604..a8130e902 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/VectorwiseOp.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/VectorwiseOp.h
@@ -48,19 +48,9 @@ struct traits<PartialReduxExpr<MatrixType, MemberOp, Direction> >
     ColsAtCompileTime = Direction==Horizontal ? 1 : MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime,
     MaxRowsAtCompileTime = Direction==Vertical   ? 1 : MatrixType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
     MaxColsAtCompileTime = Direction==Horizontal ? 1 : MatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-    Flags0 = (unsigned int)_MatrixTypeNested::Flags & HereditaryBits,
-    Flags = (Flags0 & ~RowMajorBit) | (RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? RowMajorBit : 0),
+    Flags = RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? RowMajorBit : 0,
     TraversalSize = Direction==Vertical ? MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime :  MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime
   };
-  #if EIGEN_GNUC_AT_LEAST(3,4)
-  typedef typename MemberOp::template Cost<InputScalar,int(TraversalSize)> CostOpType;
-  #else
-  typedef typename MemberOp::template Cost<InputScalar,TraversalSize> CostOpType;
-  #endif
-  enum {
-    CoeffReadCost = TraversalSize==Dynamic ? Dynamic
-                  : TraversalSize * traits<_MatrixTypeNested>::CoeffReadCost + int(CostOpType::value)
-  };
 };
 }
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Visitor.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Visitor.h
index 6f4b9ec35..810ec28e7 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Visitor.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Visitor.h
@@ -53,6 +53,33 @@ struct visitor_impl<Visitor, Derived, Dynamic>
   }
 };
 
+// evaluator adaptor
+template<typename XprType>
+class visitor_evaluator
+{
+public:
+  visitor_evaluator(const XprType &xpr) : m_evaluator(xpr), m_xpr(xpr) {}
+  
+  typedef typename XprType::Index Index;
+  typedef typename XprType::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename XprType::CoeffReturnType CoeffReturnType;
+  
+  enum {
+    RowsAtCompileTime = XprType::RowsAtCompileTime,
+    CoeffReadCost = internal::evaluator<XprType>::CoeffReadCost
+  };
+  
+  Index rows() const { return m_xpr.rows(); }
+  Index cols() const { return m_xpr.cols(); }
+  Index size() const { return m_xpr.size(); }
+
+  CoeffReturnType coeff(Index row, Index col) const
+  { return m_evaluator.coeff(row, col); }
+  
+protected:
+  typename internal::evaluator<XprType>::nestedType m_evaluator;
+  const XprType &m_xpr;
+};
 } // end namespace internal
 
 /** Applies the visitor \a visitor to the whole coefficients of the matrix or vector.
@@ -76,14 +103,17 @@ template<typename Derived>
 template<typename Visitor>
 void DenseBase<Derived>::visit(Visitor& visitor) const
 {
-  enum { unroll = SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
-                   && CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
-                   && (SizeAtCompileTime == 1 || internal::functor_traits<Visitor>::Cost != Dynamic)
-                   && SizeAtCompileTime * CoeffReadCost + (SizeAtCompileTime-1) * internal::functor_traits<Visitor>::Cost
-                      <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT };
-  return internal::visitor_impl<Visitor, Derived,
+  typedef typename internal::visitor_evaluator<Derived> ThisEvaluator;
+  ThisEvaluator thisEval(derived());
+  
+  enum { unroll =   SizeAtCompileTime != Dynamic
+                &&  ThisEvaluator::CoeffReadCost != Dynamic
+                &&  (SizeAtCompileTime == 1 || internal::functor_traits<Visitor>::Cost != Dynamic)
+                &&  SizeAtCompileTime * ThisEvaluator::CoeffReadCost + (SizeAtCompileTime-1) * internal::functor_traits<Visitor>::Cost
+                <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT };
+  return internal::visitor_impl<Visitor, ThisEvaluator,
       unroll ? int(SizeAtCompileTime) : Dynamic
-    >::run(derived(), visitor);
+    >::run(thisEval, visitor);
 }
 
 namespace internal {
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/arch/AVX/PacketMath.h b/Eigen/src/Core/arch/AVX/PacketMath.h
index 66b97bd69..01730c5ee 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/arch/AVX/PacketMath.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/arch/AVX/PacketMath.h
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ template<> EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Packet8f pmadd(const Packet8f& a, const Packet8f&
   // so let's enforce it to generate a vfmadd231ps instruction since the most common use case is to accumulate
   // the result of the product.
   Packet8f res = c;
-  asm("vfmadd231ps %[a], %[b], %[c]" : [c] "+x" (res) : [a] "x" (a), [b] "x" (b));
+  __asm__("vfmadd231ps %[a], %[b], %[c]" : [c] "+x" (res) : [a] "x" (a), [b] "x" (b));
   return res;
 #else
   return _mm256_fmadd_ps(a,b,c);
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ template<> EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Packet4d pmadd(const Packet4d& a, const Packet4d&
 #if defined(__clang__) || defined(__GNUC__)
   // see above
   Packet4d res = c;
-  asm("vfmadd231pd %[a], %[b], %[c]" : [c] "+x" (res) : [a] "x" (a), [b] "x" (b));
+  __asm__("vfmadd231pd %[a], %[b], %[c]" : [c] "+x" (res) : [a] "x" (a), [b] "x" (b));
   return res;
 #else
   return _mm256_fmadd_pd(a,b,c);
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/arch/NEON/PacketMath.h b/Eigen/src/Core/arch/NEON/PacketMath.h
index 380b76ae9..0504c095c 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/arch/NEON/PacketMath.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/arch/NEON/PacketMath.h
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ typedef uint32x4_t  Packet4ui;
 
 // arm64 does have the pld instruction. If available, let's trust the __builtin_prefetch built-in function
 // which available on LLVM and GCC (at least)
-#if (defined(__has_builtin) && __has_builtin(__builtin_prefetch)) || defined(__GNUC__)
+#if EIGEN_HAS_BUILTIN(__builtin_prefetch) || defined(__GNUC__)
   #define EIGEN_ARM_PREFETCH(ADDR) __builtin_prefetch(ADDR);
 #elif defined __pld
   #define EIGEN_ARM_PREFETCH(ADDR) __pld(ADDR)
 #elif !defined(__aarch64__)
-  #define EIGEN_ARM_PREFETCH(ADDR) asm volatile ( "   pld [%[addr]]\n" :: [addr] "r" (ADDR) : "cc" );
+  #define EIGEN_ARM_PREFETCH(ADDR) __asm__ __volatile__ ( "   pld [%[addr]]\n" :: [addr] "r" (ADDR) : "cc" );
 #else
   // by default no explicit prefetching
   #define EIGEN_ARM_PREFETCH(ADDR)
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/functors/AssignmentFunctors.h b/Eigen/src/Core/functors/AssignmentFunctors.h
index ae264aa64..d4d85a1ca 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/functors/AssignmentFunctors.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/functors/AssignmentFunctors.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ template<typename Scalar>
 struct functor_traits<assign_op<Scalar> > {
   enum {
     Cost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost,
-    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::IsVectorized
+    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable
   };
 };
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ template<typename Scalar>
 struct functor_traits<sub_assign_op<Scalar> > {
   enum {
     Cost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost,
-    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::HasAdd
+    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::HasSub
   };
 };
 
@@ -81,22 +81,24 @@ struct functor_traits<sub_assign_op<Scalar> > {
   * \brief Template functor for scalar/packet assignment with multiplication
   *
   */
-template<typename Scalar> struct mul_assign_op {
+template<typename DstScalar, typename SrcScalar=DstScalar>
+struct mul_assign_op {
 
   EIGEN_EMPTY_STRUCT_CTOR(mul_assign_op)
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void assignCoeff(Scalar& a, const Scalar& b) const { a *= b; }
+  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void assignCoeff(DstScalar& a, const SrcScalar& b) const { a *= b; }
   
   template<int Alignment, typename Packet>
-  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void assignPacket(Scalar* a, const Packet& b) const
-  { internal::pstoret<Scalar,Packet,Alignment>(a,internal::pmul(internal::ploadt<Packet,Alignment>(a),b)); }
+  EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void assignPacket(DstScalar* a, const Packet& b) const
+  { internal::pstoret<DstScalar,Packet,Alignment>(a,internal::pmul(internal::ploadt<Packet,Alignment>(a),b)); }
 };
-template<typename Scalar>
-struct functor_traits<mul_assign_op<Scalar> > {
+template<typename DstScalar, typename SrcScalar>
+struct functor_traits<mul_assign_op<DstScalar,SrcScalar> > {
   enum {
-    Cost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost,
-    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::HasMul
+    Cost = NumTraits<DstScalar>::ReadCost + NumTraits<DstScalar>::MulCost,
+    PacketAccess = is_same<DstScalar,SrcScalar>::value && packet_traits<DstScalar>::HasMul
   };
 };
+template<typename DstScalar,typename SrcScalar> struct functor_is_product_like<mul_assign_op<DstScalar,SrcScalar> > { enum { ret = 1 }; };
 
 /** \internal
   * \brief Template functor for scalar/packet assignment with diviving
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ template<typename Scalar>
 struct functor_traits<div_assign_op<Scalar> > {
   enum {
     Cost = NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost + NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost,
-    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::HasMul
+    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::HasDiv
   };
 };
 
@@ -156,7 +158,7 @@ template<typename Scalar>
 struct functor_traits<swap_assign_op<Scalar> > {
   enum {
     Cost = 3 * NumTraits<Scalar>::ReadCost,
-    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::IsVectorized
+    PacketAccess = packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable
   };
 };
 
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/functors/BinaryFunctors.h b/Eigen/src/Core/functors/BinaryFunctors.h
index ba094f5d1..157d075a7 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/functors/BinaryFunctors.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/functors/BinaryFunctors.h
@@ -167,9 +167,17 @@ template<typename Scalar> struct scalar_hypot_op {
     EIGEN_USING_STD_MATH(max);
     EIGEN_USING_STD_MATH(min);
     using std::sqrt;
-    Scalar p = (max)(_x, _y);
-    Scalar q = (min)(_x, _y);
-    Scalar qp = q/p;
+    Scalar p, qp;
+    if(_x>_y)
+    {
+      p = _x;
+      qp = _y / p;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      p = _y;
+      qp = _x / p;
+    }
     return p * sqrt(Scalar(1) + qp*qp);
   }
 };
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/CoeffBasedProduct.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/CoeffBasedProduct.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 637513132..000000000
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/CoeffBasedProduct.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,452 +0,0 @@
-// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
-// for linear algebra.
-//
-// Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
-// Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
-//
-// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
-// Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
-// with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
-
-#ifndef EIGEN_COEFFBASED_PRODUCT_H
-#define EIGEN_COEFFBASED_PRODUCT_H
-
-namespace Eigen { 
-
-namespace internal {
-
-/*********************************************************************************
-*  Coefficient based product implementation.
-*  It is designed for the following use cases:
-*  - small fixed sizes
-*  - lazy products
-*********************************************************************************/
-
-/* Since the all the dimensions of the product are small, here we can rely
- * on the generic Assign mechanism to evaluate the product per coeff (or packet).
- *
- * Note that here the inner-loops should always be unrolled.
- */
-
-template<int Traversal, int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct product_coeff_impl;
-
-template<int StorageOrder, int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl;
-
-template<typename LhsNested, typename RhsNested, int NestingFlags>
-struct traits<CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested,RhsNested,NestingFlags> >
-{
-  typedef MatrixXpr XprKind;
-  typedef typename remove_all<LhsNested>::type _LhsNested;
-  typedef typename remove_all<RhsNested>::type _RhsNested;
-  typedef typename scalar_product_traits<typename _LhsNested::Scalar, typename _RhsNested::Scalar>::ReturnType Scalar;
-  typedef typename promote_storage_type<typename traits<_LhsNested>::StorageKind,
-                                           typename traits<_RhsNested>::StorageKind>::ret StorageKind;
-  typedef typename promote_index_type<typename traits<_LhsNested>::Index,
-                                         typename traits<_RhsNested>::Index>::type Index;
-
-  enum {
-      LhsCoeffReadCost = _LhsNested::CoeffReadCost,
-      RhsCoeffReadCost = _RhsNested::CoeffReadCost,
-      LhsFlags = _LhsNested::Flags,
-      RhsFlags = _RhsNested::Flags,
-
-      RowsAtCompileTime = _LhsNested::RowsAtCompileTime,
-      ColsAtCompileTime = _RhsNested::ColsAtCompileTime,
-      InnerSize = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(_LhsNested::ColsAtCompileTime, _RhsNested::RowsAtCompileTime),
-
-      MaxRowsAtCompileTime = _LhsNested::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,
-      MaxColsAtCompileTime = _RhsNested::MaxColsAtCompileTime,
-
-      LhsRowMajor = LhsFlags & RowMajorBit,
-      RhsRowMajor = RhsFlags & RowMajorBit,
-
-      SameType = is_same<typename _LhsNested::Scalar,typename _RhsNested::Scalar>::value,
-
-      CanVectorizeRhs = RhsRowMajor && (RhsFlags & PacketAccessBit)
-                      && (ColsAtCompileTime == Dynamic
-                          || ( (ColsAtCompileTime % packet_traits<Scalar>::size) == 0
-                              && (RhsFlags&AlignedBit)
-                             )
-                         ),
-
-      CanVectorizeLhs = (!LhsRowMajor) && (LhsFlags & PacketAccessBit)
-                      && (RowsAtCompileTime == Dynamic
-                          || ( (RowsAtCompileTime % packet_traits<Scalar>::size) == 0
-                              && (LhsFlags&AlignedBit)
-                             )
-                         ),
-
-      EvalToRowMajor = (MaxRowsAtCompileTime==1&&MaxColsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 1
-                     : (MaxColsAtCompileTime==1&&MaxRowsAtCompileTime!=1) ? 0
-                     : (RhsRowMajor && !CanVectorizeLhs),
-
-      Flags = ((unsigned int)(LhsFlags | RhsFlags) & HereditaryBits & ~RowMajorBit)
-            | (EvalToRowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0)
-            | NestingFlags
-            | (CanVectorizeLhs ? (LhsFlags & AlignedBit) : 0)
-            | (CanVectorizeRhs ? (RhsFlags & AlignedBit) : 0)
-            // TODO enable vectorization for mixed types
-            | (SameType && (CanVectorizeLhs || CanVectorizeRhs) ? PacketAccessBit : 0),
-
-      CoeffReadCost = InnerSize == Dynamic ? Dynamic
-                    : InnerSize * (NumTraits<Scalar>::MulCost + LhsCoeffReadCost + RhsCoeffReadCost)
-                      + (InnerSize - 1) * NumTraits<Scalar>::AddCost,
-
-      /* CanVectorizeInner deserves special explanation. It does not affect the product flags. It is not used outside
-      * of Product. If the Product itself is not a packet-access expression, there is still a chance that the inner
-      * loop of the product might be vectorized. This is the meaning of CanVectorizeInner. Since it doesn't affect
-      * the Flags, it is safe to make this value depend on ActualPacketAccessBit, that doesn't affect the ABI.
-      */
-      CanVectorizeInner =    SameType
-                          && LhsRowMajor
-                          && (!RhsRowMajor)
-                          && (LhsFlags & RhsFlags & ActualPacketAccessBit)
-                          && (LhsFlags & RhsFlags & AlignedBit)
-                          && (InnerSize % packet_traits<Scalar>::size == 0)
-    };
-};
-
-} // end namespace internal
-
-template<typename LhsNested, typename RhsNested, int NestingFlags>
-class CoeffBasedProduct
-  : internal::no_assignment_operator,
-    public MatrixBase<CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested, RhsNested, NestingFlags> >
-{
-  public:
-
-    typedef MatrixBase<CoeffBasedProduct> Base;
-    EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(CoeffBasedProduct)
-    typedef typename Base::PlainObject PlainObject;
-
-  private:
-
-    typedef typename internal::traits<CoeffBasedProduct>::_LhsNested _LhsNested;
-    typedef typename internal::traits<CoeffBasedProduct>::_RhsNested _RhsNested;
-
-    enum {
-      PacketSize = internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::size,
-      InnerSize  = internal::traits<CoeffBasedProduct>::InnerSize,
-      Unroll = CoeffReadCost != Dynamic && CoeffReadCost <= EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT,
-      CanVectorizeInner = internal::traits<CoeffBasedProduct>::CanVectorizeInner
-    };
-
-    typedef internal::product_coeff_impl<CanVectorizeInner ? InnerVectorizedTraversal : DefaultTraversal,
-                                   Unroll ? InnerSize-1 : Dynamic,
-                                   _LhsNested, _RhsNested, Scalar> ScalarCoeffImpl;
-
-    typedef CoeffBasedProduct<LhsNested,RhsNested,NestByRefBit> LazyCoeffBasedProductType;
-
-  public:
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    inline CoeffBasedProduct(const CoeffBasedProduct& other)
-      : Base(), m_lhs(other.m_lhs), m_rhs(other.m_rhs)
-    {}
-
-    template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-    inline CoeffBasedProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
-      : m_lhs(lhs), m_rhs(rhs)
-    {
-      // we don't allow taking products of matrices of different real types, as that wouldn't be vectorizable.
-      // We still allow to mix T and complex<T>.
-      EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((internal::scalar_product_traits<typename Lhs::RealScalar, typename Rhs::RealScalar>::Defined),
-        YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
-      eigen_assert(lhs.cols() == rhs.rows()
-        && "invalid matrix product"
-        && "if you wanted a coeff-wise or a dot product use the respective explicit functions");
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Index rows() const { return m_lhs.rows(); }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE Index cols() const { return m_rhs.cols(); }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      Scalar res;
-      ScalarCoeffImpl::run(row, col, m_lhs, m_rhs, res);
-      return res;
-    }
-
-    /* Allow index-based non-packet access. It is impossible though to allow index-based packed access,
-     * which is why we don't set the LinearAccessBit.
-     */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const Scalar coeff(Index index) const
-    {
-      Scalar res;
-      const Index row = RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? 0 : index;
-      const Index col = RowsAtCompileTime == 1 ? index : 0;
-      ScalarCoeffImpl::run(row, col, m_lhs, m_rhs, res);
-      return res;
-    }
-
-    template<int LoadMode>
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE const PacketScalar packet(Index row, Index col) const
-    {
-      PacketScalar res;
-      internal::product_packet_impl<Flags&RowMajorBit ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
-                              Unroll ? InnerSize-1 : Dynamic,
-                              _LhsNested, _RhsNested, PacketScalar, LoadMode>
-        ::run(row, col, m_lhs, m_rhs, res);
-      return res;
-    }
-
-    // Implicit conversion to the nested type (trigger the evaluation of the product)
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-    EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE operator const PlainObject& () const
-    {
-      m_result.lazyAssign(*this);
-      return m_result;
-    }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC const _LhsNested& lhs() const { return m_lhs; }
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC const _RhsNested& rhs() const { return m_rhs; }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const Diagonal<const LazyCoeffBasedProductType,0> diagonal() const
-    { return reinterpret_cast<const LazyCoeffBasedProductType&>(*this); }
-
-    template<int DiagonalIndex>
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-    const Diagonal<const LazyCoeffBasedProductType,DiagonalIndex> diagonal() const
-    { return reinterpret_cast<const LazyCoeffBasedProductType&>(*this); }
-
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC
-    const Diagonal<const LazyCoeffBasedProductType,Dynamic> diagonal(Index index) const
-    { return reinterpret_cast<const LazyCoeffBasedProductType&>(*this).diagonal(index); }
-
-  protected:
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<LhsNested>::type m_lhs;
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<RhsNested>::type m_rhs;
-
-    mutable PlainObject m_result;
-};
-
-namespace internal {
-
-// here we need to overload the nested rule for products
-// such that the nested type is a const reference to a plain matrix
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int N, typename PlainObject>
-struct nested<CoeffBasedProduct<Lhs,Rhs,EvalBeforeNestingBit|EvalBeforeAssigningBit>, N, PlainObject>
-{
-  typedef PlainObject const& type;
-};
-
-/***************************************************************************
-* Normal product .coeff() implementation (with meta-unrolling)
-***************************************************************************/
-
-/**************************************
-*** Scalar path  - no vectorization ***
-**************************************/
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, RetScalar &res)
-  {
-    product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, res);
-    res += lhs.coeff(row, UnrollingIndex) * rhs.coeff(UnrollingIndex, col);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, 0, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, RetScalar &res)
-  {
-    res = lhs.coeff(row, 0) * rhs.coeff(0, col);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct product_coeff_impl<DefaultTraversal, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC 
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, RetScalar& res)
-  {
-    eigen_assert(lhs.cols()>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
-    res = lhs.coeff(row, 0) * rhs.coeff(0, col);
-      for(Index i = 1; i < lhs.cols(); ++i)
-        res += lhs.coeff(row, i) * rhs.coeff(i, col);
-  }
-};
-
-/*******************************************
-*** Scalar path with inner vectorization ***
-*******************************************/
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet>
-struct product_coeff_vectorized_unroller
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  enum { PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar>::size };
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::PacketScalar &pres)
-  {
-    product_coeff_vectorized_unroller<UnrollingIndex-PacketSize, Lhs, Rhs, Packet>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, pres);
-    pres = padd(pres, pmul( lhs.template packet<Aligned>(row, UnrollingIndex) , rhs.template packet<Aligned>(UnrollingIndex, col) ));
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet>
-struct product_coeff_vectorized_unroller<0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::PacketScalar &pres)
-  {
-    pres = pmul(lhs.template packet<Aligned>(row, 0) , rhs.template packet<Aligned>(0, col));
-  }
-};
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct product_coeff_impl<InnerVectorizedTraversal, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::PacketScalar Packet;
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  enum { PacketSize = packet_traits<typename Lhs::Scalar>::size };
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, RetScalar &res)
-  {
-    Packet pres;
-    product_coeff_vectorized_unroller<UnrollingIndex+1-PacketSize, Lhs, Rhs, Packet>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, pres);
-    res = predux(pres);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int LhsRows = Lhs::RowsAtCompileTime, int RhsCols = Rhs::ColsAtCompileTime>
-struct product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
-  {
-    res = lhs.row(row).transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs.col(col)).sum();
-  }
-};
-
-// NOTE the 3 following specializations are because taking .col(0) on a vector is a bit slower
-// NOTE maybe they are now useless since we have a specialization for Block<Matrix>
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int RhsCols>
-struct product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs,1,RhsCols>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index /*row*/, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
-  {
-    res = lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs.col(col)).sum();
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int LhsRows>
-struct product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs,LhsRows,1>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index /*col*/, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
-  {
-    res = lhs.row(row).transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs).sum();
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs,1,1>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index /*row*/, Index /*col*/, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
-  {
-    res = lhs.transpose().cwiseProduct(rhs).sum();
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename RetScalar>
-struct product_coeff_impl<InnerVectorizedTraversal, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, RetScalar>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, typename Lhs::Scalar &res)
-  {
-    product_coeff_vectorized_dyn_selector<Lhs,Rhs>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, res);
-  }
-};
-
-/*******************
-*** Packet path  ***
-*******************/
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl<RowMajor, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Packet &res)
-  {
-    product_packet_impl<RowMajor, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, res);
-    res =  pmadd(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, UnrollingIndex)), rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(UnrollingIndex, col), res);
-  }
-};
-
-template<int UnrollingIndex, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl<ColMajor, UnrollingIndex, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Packet &res)
-  {
-    product_packet_impl<ColMajor, UnrollingIndex-1, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>::run(row, col, lhs, rhs, res);
-    res =  pmadd(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, UnrollingIndex), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(UnrollingIndex, col)), res);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl<RowMajor, 0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Packet &res)
-  {
-    res = pmul(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, 0)),rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(0, col));
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl<ColMajor, 0, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Packet &res)
-  {
-    res = pmul(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, 0), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(0, col)));
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl<RowMajor, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Packet& res)
-  {
-    eigen_assert(lhs.cols()>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
-    res = pmul(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, 0)),rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(0, col));
-      for(Index i = 1; i < lhs.cols(); ++i)
-        res =  pmadd(pset1<Packet>(lhs.coeff(row, i)), rhs.template packet<LoadMode>(i, col), res);
-  }
-};
-
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Packet, int LoadMode>
-struct product_packet_impl<ColMajor, Dynamic, Lhs, Rhs, Packet, LoadMode>
-{
-  typedef typename Lhs::Index Index;
-  static EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE void run(Index row, Index col, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, Packet& res)
-  {
-    eigen_assert(lhs.cols()>0 && "you are using a non initialized matrix");
-    res = pmul(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, 0), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(0, col)));
-      for(Index i = 1; i < lhs.cols(); ++i)
-        res =  pmadd(lhs.template packet<LoadMode>(row, i), pset1<Packet>(rhs.coeff(i, col)), res);
-  }
-};
-
-} // end namespace internal
-
-} // end namespace Eigen
-
-#endif // EIGEN_COEFFBASED_PRODUCT_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix.h
index 6ad07eccb..b7e1867f0 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix.h
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ struct gemm_functor
       cols = m_rhs.cols();
 
     Gemm::run(rows, cols, m_lhs.cols(),
-              /*(const Scalar*)*/&m_lhs.coeffRef(row,0), m_lhs.outerStride(),
-              /*(const Scalar*)*/&m_rhs.coeffRef(0,col), m_rhs.outerStride(),
+              &m_lhs.coeffRef(row,0), m_lhs.outerStride(),
+              &m_rhs.coeffRef(0,col), m_rhs.outerStride(),
               (Scalar*)&(m_dest.coeffRef(row,col)), m_dest.outerStride(),
               m_actualAlpha, m_blocking, info);
   }
@@ -367,84 +367,93 @@ class gemm_blocking_space<StorageOrder,_LhsScalar,_RhsScalar,MaxRows, MaxCols, M
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
+namespace internal {
+  
 template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-class GeneralProduct<Lhs, Rhs, GemmProduct>
-  : public ProductBase<GeneralProduct<Lhs,Rhs,GemmProduct>, Lhs, Rhs>
+struct generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,GemmProduct>
+  : generic_product_impl_base<Lhs,Rhs,generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,GemmProduct> >
 {
-    enum {
-      MaxDepthAtCompileTime = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(Lhs::MaxColsAtCompileTime,Rhs::MaxRowsAtCompileTime)
-    };
-  public:
-    EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(GeneralProduct)
-    
-    typedef typename  Lhs::Scalar LhsScalar;
-    typedef typename  Rhs::Scalar RhsScalar;
-    typedef           Scalar      ResScalar;
-
-    GeneralProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs)
-    {
-      typedef internal::scalar_product_op<LhsScalar,RhsScalar> BinOp;
-      EIGEN_CHECK_BINARY_COMPATIBILIY(BinOp,LhsScalar,RhsScalar);
-    }
-    
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void evalTo(Dest& dst) const
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Index  Index;
+  typedef typename Lhs::Scalar LhsScalar;
+  typedef typename Rhs::Scalar RhsScalar;
+  
+  typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+  typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualLhsType>::type ActualLhsTypeCleaned;
+  
+  typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+  typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualRhsType>::type ActualRhsTypeCleaned;
+  
+  enum {
+    MaxDepthAtCompileTime = EIGEN_SIZE_MIN_PREFER_FIXED(Lhs::MaxColsAtCompileTime,Rhs::MaxRowsAtCompileTime)
+  };
+  
+  typedef generic_product_impl<Lhs,Rhs,DenseShape,DenseShape,CoeffBasedProductMode> lazyproduct;
+  
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void evalTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    if((rhs.rows()+dst.rows()+dst.cols())<20 && rhs.rows()>0)
+      lazyproduct::evalTo(dst, lhs, rhs);
+    else
     {
-      if((m_rhs.rows()+dst.rows()+dst.cols())<20 && m_rhs.rows()>0)
-        dst.noalias() = m_lhs .lazyProduct( m_rhs );
-      else
-      {
-        dst.setZero();
-        scaleAndAddTo(dst,Scalar(1));
-      }
+      dst.setZero();
+      scaleAndAddTo(dst, lhs, rhs, Scalar(1));
     }
+  }
 
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void addTo(Dest& dst) const
-    {
-      if((m_rhs.rows()+dst.rows()+dst.cols())<20 && m_rhs.rows()>0)
-        dst.noalias() += m_lhs .lazyProduct( m_rhs );
-      else
-        scaleAndAddTo(dst,Scalar(1));
-    }
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void addTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    if((rhs.rows()+dst.rows()+dst.cols())<20 && rhs.rows()>0)
+      lazyproduct::addTo(dst, lhs, rhs);
+    else
+      scaleAndAddTo(dst,lhs, rhs, Scalar(1));
+  }
 
-    template<typename Dest>
-    inline void subTo(Dest& dst) const
-    {
-      if((m_rhs.rows()+dst.rows()+dst.cols())<20 && m_rhs.rows()>0)
-        dst.noalias() -= m_lhs .lazyProduct( m_rhs );
-      else
-        scaleAndAddTo(dst,Scalar(-1));
-    }
-    
-    template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const
-    {
-      eigen_assert(dst.rows()==m_lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==m_rhs.cols());
+  template<typename Dst>
+  static void subTo(Dst& dst, const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs)
+  {
+    if((rhs.rows()+dst.rows()+dst.cols())<20 && rhs.rows()>0)
+      lazyproduct::subTo(dst, lhs, rhs);
+    else
+      scaleAndAddTo(dst, lhs, rhs, Scalar(-1));
+  }
+  
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Lhs& a_lhs, const Rhs& a_rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
+  {
+    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==a_lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==a_rhs.cols());
 
-      typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(m_lhs);
-      typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(m_rhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(a_lhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(a_rhs);
 
-      Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_lhs)
-                                 * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_rhs);
+    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_lhs)
+                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_rhs);
 
-      typedef internal::gemm_blocking_space<(Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor,LhsScalar,RhsScalar,
-              Dest::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,Dest::MaxColsAtCompileTime,MaxDepthAtCompileTime> BlockingType;
+    typedef internal::gemm_blocking_space<(Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor,LhsScalar,RhsScalar,
+            Dest::MaxRowsAtCompileTime,Dest::MaxColsAtCompileTime,MaxDepthAtCompileTime> BlockingType;
 
-      typedef internal::gemm_functor<
-        Scalar, Index,
-        internal::general_matrix_matrix_product<
-          Index,
-          LhsScalar, (_ActualLhsType::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, bool(LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate),
-          RhsScalar, (_ActualRhsType::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, bool(RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate),
-          (Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor>,
-        _ActualLhsType, _ActualRhsType, Dest, BlockingType> GemmFunctor;
+    typedef internal::gemm_functor<
+      Scalar, Index,
+      internal::general_matrix_matrix_product<
+        Index,
+        LhsScalar, (ActualLhsTypeCleaned::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, bool(LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate),
+        RhsScalar, (ActualRhsTypeCleaned::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, bool(RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate),
+        (Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor>,
+      ActualLhsTypeCleaned, ActualRhsTypeCleaned, Dest, BlockingType> GemmFunctor;
 
-      BlockingType blocking(dst.rows(), dst.cols(), lhs.cols(), true);
+    BlockingType blocking(dst.rows(), dst.cols(), lhs.cols(), true);
 
-      internal::parallelize_gemm<(Dest::MaxRowsAtCompileTime>32 || Dest::MaxRowsAtCompileTime==Dynamic)>(GemmFunctor(lhs, rhs, dst, actualAlpha, blocking), this->rows(), this->cols(), Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit);
-    }
+    internal::parallelize_gemm<(Dest::MaxRowsAtCompileTime>32 || Dest::MaxRowsAtCompileTime==Dynamic)>
+                              (GemmFunctor(lhs, rhs, dst, actualAlpha, blocking), a_lhs.rows(), a_rhs.cols(), Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit);
+  }
 };
 
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_GENERAL_MATRIX_MATRIX_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrixTriangular.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrixTriangular.h
index 225b994d1..7db3e3d38 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrixTriangular.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrixTriangular.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace internal {
 /**********************************************************************
 * This file implements a general A * B product while
 * evaluating only one triangular part of the product.
-* This is more general version of self adjoint product (C += A A^T)
+* This is a more general version of self adjoint product (C += A A^T)
 * as the level 3 SYRK Blas routine.
 **********************************************************************/
 
@@ -262,14 +262,14 @@ struct general_product_to_triangular_selector<MatrixType,ProductType,UpLo,false>
 };
 
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int UpLo>
-template<typename ProductDerived, typename _Lhs, typename _Rhs>
-TriangularView<MatrixType,UpLo>& TriangularView<MatrixType,UpLo>::assignProduct(const ProductBase<ProductDerived, _Lhs,_Rhs>& prod, const Scalar& alpha)
+template<typename ProductType>
+TriangularView<MatrixType,UpLo>& TriangularViewImpl<MatrixType,UpLo,Dense>::_assignProduct(const ProductType& prod, const Scalar& alpha)
 {
-  eigen_assert(m_matrix.rows() == prod.rows() && m_matrix.cols() == prod.cols());
-
-  general_product_to_triangular_selector<MatrixType, ProductDerived, UpLo, (_Lhs::ColsAtCompileTime==1) || (_Rhs::RowsAtCompileTime==1)>::run(m_matrix.const_cast_derived(), prod.derived(), alpha);
+  eigen_assert(derived().nestedExpression().rows() == prod.rows() && derived().cols() == prod.cols());
+  
+  general_product_to_triangular_selector<MatrixType, ProductType, UpLo, internal::traits<ProductType>::InnerSize==1>::run(derived().nestedExpression().const_cast_derived(), prod, alpha);
   
-  return *this;
+  return derived();
 }
 
 } // end namespace Eigen
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix_MKL.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix_MKL.h
index 060af328e..b6ae729b2 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix_MKL.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/GeneralMatrixMatrix_MKL.h
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ template< \
   int RhsStorageOrder, bool ConjugateRhs> \
 struct general_matrix_matrix_product<Index,EIGTYPE,LhsStorageOrder,ConjugateLhs,EIGTYPE,RhsStorageOrder,ConjugateRhs,ColMajor> \
 { \
+typedef gebp_traits<EIGTYPE,EIGTYPE> Traits; \
+\
 static void run(Index rows, Index cols, Index depth, \
   const EIGTYPE* _lhs, Index lhsStride, \
   const EIGTYPE* _rhs, Index rhsStride, \
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixMatrix.h
index d67164ec3..4e507b6cf 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixMatrix.h
@@ -460,55 +460,54 @@ EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void product_selfadjoint_matrix<Scalar,Index,LhsStorageOrder,f
 ***************************************************************************/
 
 namespace internal {
+  
 template<typename Lhs, int LhsMode, typename Rhs, int RhsMode>
-struct traits<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,RhsMode,false> >
-  : traits<ProductBase<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,RhsMode,false>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-}
-
-template<typename Lhs, int LhsMode, typename Rhs, int RhsMode>
-struct SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,RhsMode,false>
-  : public ProductBase<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,RhsMode,false>, Lhs, Rhs >
+struct selfadjoint_product_impl<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,RhsMode,false>
 {
-  EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(SelfadjointProductMatrix)
-
-  SelfadjointProductMatrix(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs) {}
-
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Index  Index;
+  
+  typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+  typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+  typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+  typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+  
   enum {
     LhsIsUpper = (LhsMode&(Upper|Lower))==Upper,
     LhsIsSelfAdjoint = (LhsMode&SelfAdjoint)==SelfAdjoint,
     RhsIsUpper = (RhsMode&(Upper|Lower))==Upper,
     RhsIsSelfAdjoint = (RhsMode&SelfAdjoint)==SelfAdjoint
   };
-
-  template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const
+  
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void run(Dest &dst, const Lhs &a_lhs, const Rhs &a_rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==m_lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==m_rhs.cols());
+    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==a_lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==a_rhs.cols());
 
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(m_lhs);
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(m_rhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(a_lhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(a_rhs);
 
-    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_lhs)
-                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_rhs);
+    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_lhs)
+                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_rhs);
 
     internal::product_selfadjoint_matrix<Scalar, Index,
-      EIGEN_LOGICAL_XOR(LhsIsUpper,
-                        internal::traits<Lhs>::Flags &RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, LhsIsSelfAdjoint,
+      EIGEN_LOGICAL_XOR(LhsIsUpper,internal::traits<Lhs>::Flags &RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, LhsIsSelfAdjoint,
       NumTraits<Scalar>::IsComplex && EIGEN_LOGICAL_XOR(LhsIsUpper,bool(LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate)),
-      EIGEN_LOGICAL_XOR(RhsIsUpper,
-                        internal::traits<Rhs>::Flags &RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, RhsIsSelfAdjoint,
+      EIGEN_LOGICAL_XOR(RhsIsUpper,internal::traits<Rhs>::Flags &RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, RhsIsSelfAdjoint,
       NumTraits<Scalar>::IsComplex && EIGEN_LOGICAL_XOR(RhsIsUpper,bool(RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate)),
       internal::traits<Dest>::Flags&RowMajorBit  ? RowMajor : ColMajor>
       ::run(
-        lhs.rows(), rhs.cols(),                     // sizes
-        &lhs.coeffRef(0,0),    lhs.outerStride(),   // lhs info
-        &rhs.coeffRef(0,0),    rhs.outerStride(),   // rhs info
-        &dst.coeffRef(0,0), dst.outerStride(),      // result info
-        actualAlpha                                 // alpha
+        lhs.rows(), rhs.cols(),                 // sizes
+        &lhs.coeffRef(0,0), lhs.outerStride(),  // lhs info
+        &rhs.coeffRef(0,0), rhs.outerStride(),  // rhs info
+        &dst.coeffRef(0,0), dst.outerStride(),  // result info
+        actualAlpha                             // alpha
       );
   }
 };
 
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_SELFADJOINT_MATRIX_MATRIX_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixVector.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixVector.h
index 26e787949..d9c041f0c 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixVector.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/SelfadjointMatrixVector.h
@@ -169,45 +169,45 @@ EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void selfadjoint_matrix_vector_product<Scalar,Index,StorageOrd
 ***************************************************************************/
 
 namespace internal {
-template<typename Lhs, int LhsMode, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true> >
-  : traits<ProductBase<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-}
 
 template<typename Lhs, int LhsMode, typename Rhs>
-struct SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>
-  : public ProductBase<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>, Lhs, Rhs >
+struct selfadjoint_product_impl<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>
 {
-  EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(SelfadjointProductMatrix)
-
-  enum {
-    LhsUpLo = LhsMode&(Upper|Lower)
-  };
-
-  SelfadjointProductMatrix(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs) {}
-
-  template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dest, const Scalar& alpha) const
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Index Index;
+  
+  typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+  typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualLhsType>::type ActualLhsTypeCleaned;
+  
+  typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+  typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+  typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualRhsType>::type ActualRhsTypeCleaned;
+
+  enum { LhsUpLo = LhsMode&(Upper|Lower) };
+
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void run(Dest& dest, const Lhs &a_lhs, const Rhs &a_rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
     typedef typename Dest::Scalar ResScalar;
-    typedef typename Base::RhsScalar RhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Rhs::Scalar RhsScalar;
     typedef Map<Matrix<ResScalar,Dynamic,1>, Aligned> MappedDest;
     
-    eigen_assert(dest.rows()==m_lhs.rows() && dest.cols()==m_rhs.cols());
+    eigen_assert(dest.rows()==a_lhs.rows() && dest.cols()==a_rhs.cols());
 
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(m_lhs);
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(m_rhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(a_lhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(a_rhs);
 
-    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_lhs)
-                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_rhs);
+    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_lhs)
+                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_rhs);
 
     enum {
       EvalToDest = (Dest::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1),
-      UseRhs = (_ActualRhsType::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1)
+      UseRhs = (ActualRhsTypeCleaned::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1)
     };
     
     internal::gemv_static_vector_if<ResScalar,Dest::SizeAtCompileTime,Dest::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!EvalToDest> static_dest;
-    internal::gemv_static_vector_if<RhsScalar,_ActualRhsType::SizeAtCompileTime,_ActualRhsType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!UseRhs> static_rhs;
+    internal::gemv_static_vector_if<RhsScalar,ActualRhsTypeCleaned::SizeAtCompileTime,ActualRhsTypeCleaned::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!UseRhs> static_rhs;
 
     ei_declare_aligned_stack_constructed_variable(ResScalar,actualDestPtr,dest.size(),
                                                   EvalToDest ? dest.data() : static_dest.data());
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ struct SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>
     if(!EvalToDest)
     {
       #ifdef EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
-      Index size = dest.size();
+      int size = dest.size();
       EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
       #endif
       MappedDest(actualDestPtr, dest.size()) = dest;
@@ -227,14 +227,15 @@ struct SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>
     if(!UseRhs)
     {
       #ifdef EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
-      Index size = rhs.size();
+      int size = rhs.size();
       EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
       #endif
-      Map<typename _ActualRhsType::PlainObject>(actualRhsPtr, rhs.size()) = rhs;
+      Map<typename ActualRhsTypeCleaned::PlainObject>(actualRhsPtr, rhs.size()) = rhs;
     }
       
       
-    internal::selfadjoint_matrix_vector_product<Scalar, Index, (internal::traits<_ActualLhsType>::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, int(LhsUpLo), bool(LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate), bool(RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate)>::run
+    internal::selfadjoint_matrix_vector_product<Scalar, Index, (internal::traits<ActualLhsTypeCleaned>::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor,
+                                                int(LhsUpLo), bool(LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate), bool(RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate)>::run
       (
         lhs.rows(),                             // size
         &lhs.coeffRef(0,0),  lhs.outerStride(), // lhs info
@@ -248,34 +249,24 @@ struct SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,LhsMode,false,Rhs,0,true>
   }
 };
 
-namespace internal {
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int RhsMode>
-struct traits<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,0,true,Rhs,RhsMode,false> >
-  : traits<ProductBase<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,0,true,Rhs,RhsMode,false>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-}
-
 template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int RhsMode>
-struct SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,0,true,Rhs,RhsMode,false>
-  : public ProductBase<SelfadjointProductMatrix<Lhs,0,true,Rhs,RhsMode,false>, Lhs, Rhs >
+struct selfadjoint_product_impl<Lhs,0,true,Rhs,RhsMode,false>
 {
-  EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(SelfadjointProductMatrix)
-
-  enum {
-    RhsUpLo = RhsMode&(Upper|Lower)
-  };
+  typedef typename Product<Lhs,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
+  enum { RhsUpLo = RhsMode&(Upper|Lower)  };
 
-  SelfadjointProductMatrix(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs) {}
-
-  template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dest, const Scalar& alpha) const
+  template<typename Dest>
+  static void run(Dest& dest, const Lhs &a_lhs, const Rhs &a_rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
   {
     // let's simply transpose the product
     Transpose<Dest> destT(dest);
-    SelfadjointProductMatrix<Transpose<const Rhs>, int(RhsUpLo)==Upper ? Lower : Upper, false,
-                             Transpose<const Lhs>, 0, true>(m_rhs.transpose(), m_lhs.transpose()).scaleAndAddTo(destT, alpha);
+    selfadjoint_product_impl<Transpose<const Rhs>, int(RhsUpLo)==Upper ? Lower : Upper, false,
+                             Transpose<const Lhs>, 0, true>::run(destT, a_rhs.transpose(), a_lhs.transpose(), alpha);
   }
 };
 
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_SELFADJOINT_MATRIX_VECTOR_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix.h
index db7b27f8e..c2d0817ea 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix.h
@@ -369,28 +369,29 @@ EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void product_triangular_matrix_matrix<Scalar,Index,Mode,false,
 * Wrapper to product_triangular_matrix_matrix
 ***************************************************************************/
 
-template<int Mode, bool LhsIsTriangular, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,false> >
-  : traits<ProductBase<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,false>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-
 } // end namespace internal
 
+namespace internal {
 template<int Mode, bool LhsIsTriangular, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,false>
-  : public ProductBase<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,false>, Lhs, Rhs >
+struct triangular_product_impl<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,false>
 {
-  EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(TriangularProduct)
-
-  TriangularProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs) {}
-
-  template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const
+  template<typename Dest> static void run(Dest& dst, const Lhs &a_lhs, const Rhs &a_rhs, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(m_lhs);
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(m_rhs);
+    typedef typename Dest::Index      Index;
+    typedef typename Dest::Scalar     Scalar;
+    
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualLhsType>::type ActualLhsTypeCleaned;
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualRhsType>::type ActualRhsTypeCleaned;
+    
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type lhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(a_lhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type rhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(a_rhs);
 
-    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_lhs)
-                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(m_rhs);
+    Scalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_lhs)
+                               * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(a_rhs);
 
     typedef internal::gemm_blocking_space<(Dest::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor,Scalar,Scalar,
               Lhs::MaxRowsAtCompileTime, Rhs::MaxColsAtCompileTime, Lhs::MaxColsAtCompileTime,4> BlockingType;
@@ -405,19 +406,21 @@ struct TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,false>
 
     internal::product_triangular_matrix_matrix<Scalar, Index,
       Mode, LhsIsTriangular,
-      (internal::traits<_ActualLhsType>::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate,
-      (internal::traits<_ActualRhsType>::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate,
+      (internal::traits<ActualLhsTypeCleaned>::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, LhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate,
+      (internal::traits<ActualRhsTypeCleaned>::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor, RhsBlasTraits::NeedToConjugate,
       (internal::traits<Dest          >::Flags&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor>
       ::run(
         stripedRows, stripedCols, stripedDepth,   // sizes
-        &lhs.coeffRef(0,0),    lhs.outerStride(), // lhs info
-        &rhs.coeffRef(0,0),    rhs.outerStride(), // rhs info
+        &lhs.coeffRef(0,0), lhs.outerStride(),    // lhs info
+        &rhs.coeffRef(0,0), rhs.outerStride(),    // rhs info
         &dst.coeffRef(0,0), dst.outerStride(),    // result info
         actualAlpha, blocking
       );
   }
 };
 
+} // end namespace internal
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_TRIANGULAR_MATRIX_MATRIX_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix_MKL.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix_MKL.h
index ba41a1c99..4cc56a42f 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix_MKL.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixMatrix_MKL.h
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ struct product_triangular_matrix_matrix_trmm<EIGTYPE,Index,Mode,true, \
 /* Non-square case - doesn't fit to MKL ?TRMM. Fall to default triangular product or call MKL ?GEMM*/ \
    if (rows != depth) { \
 \
-     int nthr = mkl_domain_get_max_threads(MKL_BLAS); \
+     int nthr = mkl_domain_get_max_threads(EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS); \
 \
      if (((nthr==1) && (((std::max)(rows,depth)-diagSize)/(double)diagSize < 0.5))) { \
      /* Most likely no benefit to call TRMM or GEMM from MKL*/ \
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct product_triangular_matrix_matrix_trmm<EIGTYPE,Index,Mode,false, \
 /* Non-square case - doesn't fit to MKL ?TRMM. Fall to default triangular product or call MKL ?GEMM*/ \
    if (cols != depth) { \
 \
-     int nthr = mkl_domain_get_max_threads(MKL_BLAS); \
+     int nthr = mkl_domain_get_max_threads(EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS); \
 \
      if ((nthr==1) && (((std::max)(cols,depth)-diagSize)/(double)diagSize < 0.5)) { \
      /* Most likely no benefit to call TRMM or GEMM from MKL*/ \
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixVector.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixVector.h
index 817768481..92d64e384 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixVector.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/TriangularMatrixVector.h
@@ -157,83 +157,67 @@ EIGEN_DONT_INLINE void triangular_matrix_vector_product<Index,Mode,LhsScalar,Con
 * Wrapper to product_triangular_vector
 ***************************************************************************/
 
-template<int Mode, bool LhsIsTriangular, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,true> >
- : traits<ProductBase<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-
-template<int Mode, bool LhsIsTriangular, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct traits<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,true,Rhs,false> >
- : traits<ProductBase<TriangularProduct<Mode,LhsIsTriangular,Lhs,true,Rhs,false>, Lhs, Rhs> >
-{};
-
-
-template<int StorageOrder>
+template<int Mode,int StorageOrder>
 struct trmv_selector;
 
 } // end namespace internal
 
+namespace internal {
+
 template<int Mode, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>
-  : public ProductBase<TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>, Lhs, Rhs >
+struct triangular_product_impl<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>
 {
-  EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(TriangularProduct)
-
-  TriangularProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs) {}
-
-  template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const
+  template<typename Dest> static void run(Dest& dst, const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==m_lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==m_rhs.cols());
+    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==rhs.cols());
   
-    internal::trmv_selector<(int(internal::traits<Lhs>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor>::run(*this, dst, alpha);
+    internal::trmv_selector<Mode,(int(internal::traits<Lhs>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) ? RowMajor : ColMajor>::run(lhs, rhs, dst, alpha);
   }
 };
 
 template<int Mode, typename Lhs, typename Rhs>
-struct TriangularProduct<Mode,false,Lhs,true,Rhs,false>
-  : public ProductBase<TriangularProduct<Mode,false,Lhs,true,Rhs,false>, Lhs, Rhs >
+struct triangular_product_impl<Mode,false,Lhs,true,Rhs,false>
 {
-  EIGEN_PRODUCT_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(TriangularProduct)
-
-  TriangularProduct(const Lhs& lhs, const Rhs& rhs) : Base(lhs,rhs) {}
-
-  template<typename Dest> void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const Scalar& alpha) const
+  template<typename Dest> static void run(Dest& dst, const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==m_lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==m_rhs.cols());
+    eigen_assert(dst.rows()==lhs.rows() && dst.cols()==rhs.cols());
 
-    typedef TriangularProduct<(Mode & (UnitDiag|ZeroDiag)) | ((Mode & Lower) ? Upper : Lower),true,Transpose<const Rhs>,false,Transpose<const Lhs>,true> TriangularProductTranspose;
     Transpose<Dest> dstT(dst);
-    internal::trmv_selector<(int(internal::traits<Rhs>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) ? ColMajor : RowMajor>::run(
-      TriangularProductTranspose(m_rhs.transpose(),m_lhs.transpose()), dstT, alpha);
+    internal::trmv_selector<(Mode & (UnitDiag|ZeroDiag)) | ((Mode & Lower) ? Upper : Lower),
+                            (int(internal::traits<Rhs>::Flags)&RowMajorBit) ? ColMajor : RowMajor>
+            ::run(rhs.transpose(),lhs.transpose(), dstT, alpha);
   }
 };
 
+} // end namespace internal
+
 namespace internal {
 
 // TODO: find a way to factorize this piece of code with gemv_selector since the logic is exactly the same.
   
-template<> struct trmv_selector<ColMajor>
+template<int Mode> struct trmv_selector<Mode,ColMajor>
 {
-  template<int Mode, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
-  static void run(const TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>& prod, Dest& dest, const typename TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>::Scalar& alpha)
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    typedef TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true> ProductType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Index Index;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsScalar   LhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsScalar   RhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Scalar      ResScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RealScalar  RealScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualLhsType ActualLhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualRhsType ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsBlasTraits LhsBlasTraits;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsBlasTraits RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename Dest::Index      Index;
+    typedef typename Lhs::Scalar      LhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Rhs::Scalar      RhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Dest::Scalar     ResScalar;
+    typedef typename Dest::RealScalar RealScalar;
+    
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+    
     typedef Map<Matrix<ResScalar,Dynamic,1>, Aligned> MappedDest;
 
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.lhs());
-    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.rhs());
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualLhsType>::type actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(lhs);
+    typename internal::add_const_on_value_type<ActualRhsType>::type actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(rhs);
 
-    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.lhs())
-                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.rhs());
+    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(lhs)
+                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(rhs);
 
     enum {
       // FIXME find a way to allow an inner stride on the result if packet_traits<Scalar>::size==1
@@ -288,33 +272,33 @@ template<> struct trmv_selector<ColMajor>
   }
 };
 
-template<> struct trmv_selector<RowMajor>
+template<int Mode> struct trmv_selector<Mode,RowMajor>
 {
-  template<int Mode, typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
-  static void run(const TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>& prod, Dest& dest, const typename TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true>::Scalar& alpha)
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, typename Dest>
+  static void run(const Lhs &lhs, const Rhs &rhs, Dest& dest, const typename Dest::Scalar& alpha)
   {
-    typedef TriangularProduct<Mode,true,Lhs,false,Rhs,true> ProductType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsScalar LhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsScalar RhsScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Scalar    ResScalar;
-    typedef typename ProductType::Index Index;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualLhsType ActualLhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::ActualRhsType ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::_ActualRhsType _ActualRhsType;
-    typedef typename ProductType::LhsBlasTraits LhsBlasTraits;
-    typedef typename ProductType::RhsBlasTraits RhsBlasTraits;
-
-    typename add_const<ActualLhsType>::type actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.lhs());
-    typename add_const<ActualRhsType>::type actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(prod.rhs());
-
-    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.lhs())
-                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(prod.rhs());
+    typedef typename Dest::Index      Index;
+    typedef typename Lhs::Scalar      LhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Rhs::Scalar      RhsScalar;
+    typedef typename Dest::Scalar     ResScalar;
+    
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Lhs> LhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename LhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualLhsType;
+    typedef internal::blas_traits<Rhs> RhsBlasTraits;
+    typedef typename RhsBlasTraits::DirectLinearAccessType ActualRhsType;
+    typedef typename internal::remove_all<ActualRhsType>::type ActualRhsTypeCleaned;
+
+    typename add_const<ActualLhsType>::type actualLhs = LhsBlasTraits::extract(lhs);
+    typename add_const<ActualRhsType>::type actualRhs = RhsBlasTraits::extract(rhs);
+
+    ResScalar actualAlpha = alpha * LhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(lhs)
+                                  * RhsBlasTraits::extractScalarFactor(rhs);
 
     enum {
-      DirectlyUseRhs = _ActualRhsType::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1
+      DirectlyUseRhs = ActualRhsTypeCleaned::InnerStrideAtCompileTime==1
     };
 
-    gemv_static_vector_if<RhsScalar,_ActualRhsType::SizeAtCompileTime,_ActualRhsType::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!DirectlyUseRhs> static_rhs;
+    gemv_static_vector_if<RhsScalar,ActualRhsTypeCleaned::SizeAtCompileTime,ActualRhsTypeCleaned::MaxSizeAtCompileTime,!DirectlyUseRhs> static_rhs;
 
     ei_declare_aligned_stack_constructed_variable(RhsScalar,actualRhsPtr,actualRhs.size(),
         DirectlyUseRhs ? const_cast<RhsScalar*>(actualRhs.data()) : static_rhs.data());
@@ -325,7 +309,7 @@ template<> struct trmv_selector<RowMajor>
       Index size = actualRhs.size();
       EIGEN_DENSE_STORAGE_CTOR_PLUGIN
       #endif
-      Map<typename _ActualRhsType::PlainObject>(actualRhsPtr, actualRhs.size()) = actualRhs;
+      Map<typename ActualRhsTypeCleaned::PlainObject>(actualRhsPtr, actualRhs.size()) = actualRhs;
     }
     
     internal::triangular_matrix_vector_product
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Constants.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Constants.h
index 31073b990..2c9fb443d 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Constants.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Constants.h
@@ -53,14 +53,13 @@ const int Infinity = -1;
 const unsigned int RowMajorBit = 0x1;
 
 /** \ingroup flags
-  *
   * means the expression should be evaluated by the calling expression */
 const unsigned int EvalBeforeNestingBit = 0x2;
 
 /** \ingroup flags
-  *
+  * \deprecated
   * means the expression should be evaluated before any assignment */
-const unsigned int EvalBeforeAssigningBit = 0x4;
+const unsigned int EvalBeforeAssigningBit = 0x4; // FIXME deprecated
 
 /** \ingroup flags
   *
@@ -155,6 +154,16 @@ const unsigned int AlignedBit = 0x80;
 
 const unsigned int NestByRefBit = 0x100;
 
+/** \ingroup flags
+  *
+  * for an expression, this means that the storage order
+  * can be either row-major or column-major.
+  * The precise choice will be decided at evaluation time or when
+  * combined with other expressions.
+  * \sa \ref RowMajorBit, \ref TopicStorageOrders */
+const unsigned int NoPreferredStorageOrderBit = 0x200;
+
+
 // list of flags that are inherited by default
 const unsigned int HereditaryBits = RowMajorBit
                                   | EvalBeforeNestingBit
@@ -431,7 +440,7 @@ namespace Architecture
 
 /** \internal \ingroup enums
   * Enum used as template parameter in GeneralProduct. */
-enum { CoeffBasedProductMode, LazyCoeffBasedProductMode, OuterProduct, InnerProduct, GemvProduct, GemmProduct };
+enum { DefaultProduct=0, CoeffBasedProductMode, LazyCoeffBasedProductMode, LazyProduct, OuterProduct, InnerProduct, GemvProduct, GemmProduct };
 
 /** \internal \ingroup enums
   * Enum used in experimental parallel implementation. */
@@ -440,12 +449,25 @@ enum Action {GetAction, SetAction};
 /** The type used to identify a dense storage. */
 struct Dense {};
 
+/** The type used to identify a permutation storage. */
+struct PermutationStorage {};
+
 /** The type used to identify a matrix expression */
 struct MatrixXpr {};
 
 /** The type used to identify an array expression */
 struct ArrayXpr {};
 
+// An evaluator must define its shape. By default, it can be one of the following:
+struct DenseShape             { static std::string debugName() { return "DenseShape"; } };
+struct HomogeneousShape       { static std::string debugName() { return "HomogeneousShape"; } };
+struct DiagonalShape          { static std::string debugName() { return "DiagonalShape"; } };
+struct BandShape              { static std::string debugName() { return "BandShape"; } };
+struct TriangularShape        { static std::string debugName() { return "TriangularShape"; } };
+struct SelfAdjointShape       { static std::string debugName() { return "SelfAdjointShape"; } };
+struct PermutationShape       { static std::string debugName() { return "PermutationShape"; } };
+struct SparseShape            { static std::string debugName() { return "SparseShape"; } };
+
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_CONSTANTS_H
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/ForwardDeclarations.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/ForwardDeclarations.h
index 33deb88ec..9ec57468b 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/ForwardDeclarations.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/ForwardDeclarations.h
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ template<typename Derived> struct accessors_level
   };
 };
 
+template<typename T> struct evaluator_traits;
+
+template< typename T> struct evaluator;
+
 } // end namespace internal
 
 template<typename T> struct NumTraits;
@@ -87,11 +91,19 @@ template<typename NullaryOp, typename MatrixType>         class CwiseNullaryOp;
 template<typename UnaryOp,   typename MatrixType>         class CwiseUnaryOp;
 template<typename ViewOp,    typename MatrixType>         class CwiseUnaryView;
 template<typename BinaryOp,  typename Lhs, typename Rhs>  class CwiseBinaryOp;
-template<typename BinOp,     typename Lhs, typename Rhs>  class SelfCwiseBinaryOp;
-template<typename Derived,   typename Lhs, typename Rhs>  class ProductBase;
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs>                      class Product;
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Mode>            class GeneralProduct;
-template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int NestingFlags>    class CoeffBasedProduct;
+template<typename BinOp,     typename Lhs, typename Rhs>  class SelfCwiseBinaryOp;      // TODO deprecated
+template<typename Derived,   typename Lhs, typename Rhs>  class ProductBase;            // TODO deprecated
+template<typename Decomposition, typename Rhstype>        class Solve;
+template<typename XprType>                                class Inverse;
+
+namespace internal {
+  template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs> struct product_tag;
+}
+
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Option = DefaultProduct> class Product;
+         
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int Mode>            class GeneralProduct;         // TODO deprecated
+template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs, int NestingFlags>    class CoeffBasedProduct;      // TODO deprecated
 
 template<typename Derived> class DiagonalBase;
 template<typename _DiagonalVectorType> class DiagonalWrapper;
@@ -109,7 +121,12 @@ template<typename Derived,
          int Level = internal::accessors_level<Derived>::has_write_access ? WriteAccessors : ReadOnlyAccessors
 > class MapBase;
 template<int InnerStrideAtCompileTime, int OuterStrideAtCompileTime> class Stride;
+template<int Value = Dynamic> class InnerStride;
+template<int Value = Dynamic> class OuterStride;
 template<typename MatrixType, int MapOptions=Unaligned, typename StrideType = Stride<0,0> > class Map;
+template<typename Derived> class RefBase;
+template<typename PlainObjectType, int Options = 0,
+         typename StrideType = typename internal::conditional<PlainObjectType::IsVectorAtCompileTime,InnerStride<1>,OuterStride<> >::type > class Ref;
 
 template<typename Derived> class TriangularBase;
 template<typename MatrixType, unsigned int Mode> class TriangularView;
@@ -122,8 +139,6 @@ template<typename ExpressionType> class ArrayWrapper;
 template<typename ExpressionType> class MatrixWrapper;
 
 namespace internal {
-template<typename DecompositionType, typename Rhs> struct solve_retval_base;
-template<typename DecompositionType, typename Rhs> struct solve_retval;
 template<typename DecompositionType> struct kernel_retval_base;
 template<typename DecompositionType> struct kernel_retval;
 template<typename DecompositionType> struct image_retval_base;
@@ -136,6 +151,18 @@ template<typename _Scalar, int Rows=Dynamic, int Cols=Dynamic, int Supers=Dynami
 
 namespace internal {
 template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs> struct product_type;
+/** \internal
+  * \class product_evaluator
+  * Products need their own evaluator with more template arguments allowing for
+  * easier partial template specializations.
+  */
+template< typename T,
+          int ProductTag = internal::product_type<typename T::Lhs,typename T::Rhs>::ret,
+          typename LhsShape = typename evaluator_traits<typename T::Lhs>::Shape,
+          typename RhsShape = typename evaluator_traits<typename T::Rhs>::Shape,
+          typename LhsScalar = typename traits<typename T::Lhs>::Scalar,
+          typename RhsScalar = typename traits<typename T::Rhs>::Scalar
+        > struct product_evaluator;
 }
 
 template<typename Lhs, typename Rhs,
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/MKL_support.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/MKL_support.h
index 8acca9c8c..1ef3b61db 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/MKL_support.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/MKL_support.h
@@ -76,6 +76,38 @@
 #include <mkl_lapacke.h>
 #define EIGEN_MKL_VML_THRESHOLD 128
 
+/* MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS, etc are defined only in 10.3 update 7 */
+/* MKL_BLAS, etc are not defined in 11.2 */
+#ifdef MKL_DOMAIN_ALL
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_ALL MKL_DOMAIN_ALL
+#else
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_ALL MKL_ALL
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS
+#else
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_BLAS MKL_BLAS
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MKL_DOMAIN_FFT
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_FFT MKL_DOMAIN_FFT
+#else
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_FFT MKL_FFT
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MKL_DOMAIN_VML
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_VML MKL_DOMAIN_VML
+#else
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_VML MKL_VML
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MKL_DOMAIN_PARDISO
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_PARDISO MKL_DOMAIN_PARDISO
+#else
+#define EIGEN_MKL_DOMAIN_PARDISO MKL_PARDISO
+#endif
+
 namespace Eigen {
 
 typedef std::complex<double> dcomplex;
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h
index 5e9b0a112..f9b908e22 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h
@@ -107,6 +107,13 @@
 #define EIGEN_DEFAULT_DENSE_INDEX_TYPE std::ptrdiff_t
 #endif
 
+// Cross compiler wrapper around LLVM's __has_builtin
+#ifdef __has_builtin
+#  define EIGEN_HAS_BUILTIN(x) __has_builtin(x)
+#else
+#  define EIGEN_HAS_BUILTIN(x) 0
+#endif
+
 // A Clang feature extension to determine compiler features.
 // We use it to determine 'cxx_rvalue_references'
 #ifndef __has_feature
@@ -272,7 +279,7 @@ namespace Eigen {
 
 #if !defined(EIGEN_ASM_COMMENT)
   #if (defined __GNUC__) && ( defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) )
-    #define EIGEN_ASM_COMMENT(X)  asm("#" X)
+    #define EIGEN_ASM_COMMENT(X)  __asm__("#" X)
   #else
     #define EIGEN_ASM_COMMENT(X)
   #endif
@@ -367,6 +374,8 @@ namespace Eigen {
 * documentation in a single line.
 **/
 
+// TODO The EIGEN_DENSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE should not exists anymore
+  
 #define EIGEN_GENERIC_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(Derived) \
   typedef typename Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::Scalar Scalar; /*!< \brief Numeric type, e.g. float, double, int or std::complex<float>. */ \
   typedef typename Eigen::NumTraits<Scalar>::Real RealScalar; /*!< \brief The underlying numeric type for composed scalar types. \details In cases where Scalar is e.g. std::complex<T>, T were corresponding to RealScalar. */ \
@@ -377,7 +386,6 @@ namespace Eigen {
   enum { RowsAtCompileTime = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::RowsAtCompileTime, \
         ColsAtCompileTime = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::ColsAtCompileTime, \
         Flags = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::Flags, \
-        CoeffReadCost = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::CoeffReadCost, \
         SizeAtCompileTime = Base::SizeAtCompileTime, \
         MaxSizeAtCompileTime = Base::MaxSizeAtCompileTime, \
         IsVectorAtCompileTime = Base::IsVectorAtCompileTime };
@@ -396,13 +404,11 @@ namespace Eigen {
         MaxRowsAtCompileTime = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::MaxRowsAtCompileTime, \
         MaxColsAtCompileTime = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::MaxColsAtCompileTime, \
         Flags = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::Flags, \
-        CoeffReadCost = Eigen::internal::traits<Derived>::CoeffReadCost, \
         SizeAtCompileTime = Base::SizeAtCompileTime, \
         MaxSizeAtCompileTime = Base::MaxSizeAtCompileTime, \
         IsVectorAtCompileTime = Base::IsVectorAtCompileTime }; \
   using Base::derived; \
-  using Base::const_cast_derived;
-
+  using Base::const_cast_derived;  
 
 #define EIGEN_PLAIN_ENUM_MIN(a,b) (((int)a <= (int)b) ? (int)a : (int)b)
 #define EIGEN_PLAIN_ENUM_MAX(a,b) (((int)a >= (int)b) ? (int)a : (int)b)
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h
index b99b8849e..f3bafd5af 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Meta.h
@@ -274,18 +274,6 @@ template<typename T> struct scalar_product_traits<std::complex<T>, T>
 // typedef typename scalar_product_traits<typename remove_all<ArgType0>::type, typename remove_all<ArgType1>::type>::ReturnType type;
 // };
 
-template<typename T> struct is_diagonal
-{ enum { ret = false }; };
-
-template<typename T> struct is_diagonal<DiagonalBase<T> >
-{ enum { ret = true }; };
-
-template<typename T> struct is_diagonal<DiagonalWrapper<T> >
-{ enum { ret = true }; };
-
-template<typename T, int S> struct is_diagonal<DiagonalMatrix<T,S> >
-{ enum { ret = true }; };
-
 } // end namespace internal
 
 namespace numext {
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/StaticAssert.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/StaticAssert.h
index 59aa0811c..54a16ebf2 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/StaticAssert.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/StaticAssert.h
@@ -84,13 +84,15 @@
         THIS_EXPRESSION_IS_NOT_A_LVALUE__IT_IS_READ_ONLY,
         YOU_ARE_TRYING_TO_USE_AN_INDEX_BASED_ACCESSOR_ON_AN_EXPRESSION_THAT_DOES_NOT_SUPPORT_THAT,
         THIS_METHOD_IS_ONLY_FOR_1x1_EXPRESSIONS,
+        THIS_METHOD_IS_ONLY_FOR_INNER_OR_LAZY_PRODUCTS,
         THIS_METHOD_IS_ONLY_FOR_EXPRESSIONS_OF_BOOL,
         THIS_METHOD_IS_ONLY_FOR_ARRAYS_NOT_MATRICES,
         YOU_PASSED_A_ROW_VECTOR_BUT_A_COLUMN_VECTOR_WAS_EXPECTED,
         YOU_PASSED_A_COLUMN_VECTOR_BUT_A_ROW_VECTOR_WAS_EXPECTED,
         THE_INDEX_TYPE_MUST_BE_A_SIGNED_TYPE,
         THE_STORAGE_ORDER_OF_BOTH_SIDES_MUST_MATCH,
-        OBJECT_ALLOCATED_ON_STACK_IS_TOO_BIG
+        OBJECT_ALLOCATED_ON_STACK_IS_TOO_BIG,
+        IMPLICIT_CONVERSION_TO_SCALAR_IS_FOR_INNER_PRODUCT_ONLY
       };
     };
 
@@ -157,7 +159,7 @@
 
 #define EIGEN_PREDICATE_SAME_MATRIX_SIZE(TYPE0,TYPE1) \
      ( \
-        (int(TYPE0::SizeAtCompileTime)==0 && int(TYPE1::SizeAtCompileTime)==0) \
+        (int(internal::size_of_xpr_at_compile_time<TYPE0>::ret)==0 && int(internal::size_of_xpr_at_compile_time<TYPE1>::ret)==0) \
     || (\
           (int(TYPE0::RowsAtCompileTime)==Eigen::Dynamic \
         || int(TYPE1::RowsAtCompileTime)==Eigen::Dynamic \
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/XprHelper.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/XprHelper.h
index 1b3e122e1..f2536714e 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/XprHelper.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/XprHelper.h
@@ -128,6 +128,17 @@ template<typename _Scalar, int _Rows, int _Cols,
 template<typename Scalar, int Rows, int Cols, int Options, int MaxRows, int MaxCols>
 class compute_matrix_flags
 {
+    enum { row_major_bit = Options&RowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0 };
+  public:
+    // FIXME currently we still have to handle DirectAccessBit at the expression level to handle DenseCoeffsBase<>
+    // and then propagate this information to the evaluator's flags.
+    // However, I (Gael) think that DirectAccessBit should only matter at the evaluation stage.
+    enum { ret = DirectAccessBit | LvalueBit | NestByRefBit | row_major_bit };
+};
+
+template<typename Scalar, int Rows, int Cols, int Options, int MaxRows, int MaxCols>
+class compute_matrix_evaluator_flags
+{
     enum {
       row_major_bit = Options&RowMajor ? RowMajorBit : 0,
       is_dynamic_size_storage = MaxRows==Dynamic || MaxCols==Dynamic,
@@ -156,7 +167,7 @@ class compute_matrix_flags
     };
 
   public:
-    enum { ret = LinearAccessBit | LvalueBit | DirectAccessBit | NestByRefBit | packet_access_bit | row_major_bit | aligned_bit };
+    enum { ret = LinearAccessBit | DirectAccessBit | packet_access_bit | row_major_bit | aligned_bit };
 };
 
 template<int _Rows, int _Cols> struct size_at_compile_time
@@ -164,6 +175,11 @@ template<int _Rows, int _Cols> struct size_at_compile_time
   enum { ret = (_Rows==Dynamic || _Cols==Dynamic) ? Dynamic : _Rows * _Cols };
 };
 
+template<typename XprType> struct size_of_xpr_at_compile_time
+{
+  enum { ret = size_at_compile_time<traits<XprType>::RowsAtCompileTime,traits<XprType>::ColsAtCompileTime>::ret };
+};
+
 /* plain_matrix_type : the difference from eval is that plain_matrix_type is always a plain matrix type,
  * whereas eval is a const reference in the case of a matrix
  */
@@ -174,6 +190,10 @@ template<typename T> struct plain_matrix_type<T,Dense>
 {
   typedef typename plain_matrix_type_dense<T,typename traits<T>::XprKind>::type type;
 };
+template<typename T> struct plain_matrix_type<T,DiagonalShape>
+{
+  typedef typename T::PlainObject type;
+};
 
 template<typename T> struct plain_matrix_type_dense<T,MatrixXpr>
 {
@@ -216,6 +236,11 @@ template<typename T> struct eval<T,Dense>
 //           > type;
 };
 
+template<typename T> struct eval<T,DiagonalShape>
+{
+  typedef typename plain_matrix_type<T>::type type;
+};
+
 // for matrices, no need to evaluate, just use a const reference to avoid a useless copy
 template<typename _Scalar, int _Rows, int _Cols, int _Options, int _MaxRows, int _MaxCols>
 struct eval<Matrix<_Scalar, _Rows, _Cols, _Options, _MaxRows, _MaxCols>, Dense>
@@ -294,38 +319,42 @@ struct transfer_constness
   >::type type;
 };
 
-/** \internal Determines how a given expression should be nested into another one.
+
+// When using evaluators, we never evaluate when assembling the expression!!
+// TODO: get rid of this nested class since it's just an alias for ref_selector.
+template<typename T, int n=1, typename PlainObject = void> struct nested
+{
+  typedef typename ref_selector<T>::type type;
+};
+
+// However, we still need a mechanism to detect whether an expression which is evaluated multiple time
+// has to be evaluated into a temporary.
+// That's the purpose of this new nested_eval helper:
+/** \internal Determines how a given expression should be nested when evaluated multiple times.
   * For example, when you do a * (b+c), Eigen will determine how the expression b+c should be
-  * nested into the bigger product expression. The choice is between nesting the expression b+c as-is, or
+  * evaluated into the bigger product expression. The choice is between nesting the expression b+c as-is, or
   * evaluating that expression b+c into a temporary variable d, and nest d so that the resulting expression is
   * a*d. Evaluating can be beneficial for example if every coefficient access in the resulting expression causes
   * many coefficient accesses in the nested expressions -- as is the case with matrix product for example.
   *
-  * \param T the type of the expression being nested
+  * \param T the type of the expression being nested.
   * \param n the number of coefficient accesses in the nested expression for each coefficient access in the bigger expression.
-  *
-  * Note that if no evaluation occur, then the constness of T is preserved.
-  *
-  * Example. Suppose that a, b, and c are of type Matrix3d. The user forms the expression a*(b+c).
-  * b+c is an expression "sum of matrices", which we will denote by S. In order to determine how to nest it,
-  * the Product expression uses: nested<S, 3>::type, which turns out to be Matrix3d because the internal logic of
-  * nested determined that in this case it was better to evaluate the expression b+c into a temporary. On the other hand,
-  * since a is of type Matrix3d, the Product expression nests it as nested<Matrix3d, 3>::type, which turns out to be
-  * const Matrix3d&, because the internal logic of nested determined that since a was already a matrix, there was no point
-  * in copying it into another matrix.
+  * \param PlainObject the type of the temporary if needed.
   */
-template<typename T, int n=1, typename PlainObject = typename eval<T>::type> struct nested
+template<typename T, int n, typename PlainObject = typename eval<T>::type> struct nested_eval
 {
   enum {
-    // for the purpose of this test, to keep it reasonably simple, we arbitrarily choose a value of Dynamic values.
+    // For the purpose of this test, to keep it reasonably simple, we arbitrarily choose a value of Dynamic values.
     // the choice of 10000 makes it larger than any practical fixed value and even most dynamic values.
     // in extreme cases where these assumptions would be wrong, we would still at worst suffer performance issues
     // (poor choice of temporaries).
-    // it's important that this value can still be squared without integer overflowing.
+    // It's important that this value can still be squared without integer overflowing.
     DynamicAsInteger = 10000,
     ScalarReadCost = NumTraits<typename traits<T>::Scalar>::ReadCost,
     ScalarReadCostAsInteger = ScalarReadCost == Dynamic ? int(DynamicAsInteger) : int(ScalarReadCost),
-    CoeffReadCost = traits<T>::CoeffReadCost,
+    CoeffReadCost = evaluator<T>::CoeffReadCost,  // TODO What if an evaluator evaluate itself into a tempory?
+                                                  // Then CoeffReadCost will be small but we still have to evaluate if n>1... 
+                                                  // The solution might be to ask the evaluator if it creates a temp. Perhaps we could even ask the number of temps?
     CoeffReadCostAsInteger = CoeffReadCost == Dynamic ? int(DynamicAsInteger) : int(CoeffReadCost),
     NAsInteger = n == Dynamic ? int(DynamicAsInteger) : n,
     CostEvalAsInteger   = (NAsInteger+1) * ScalarReadCostAsInteger + CoeffReadCostAsInteger,
@@ -333,11 +362,10 @@ template<typename T, int n=1, typename PlainObject = typename eval<T>::type> str
   };
 
   typedef typename conditional<
-      ( (int(traits<T>::Flags) & EvalBeforeNestingBit) ||
-        int(CostEvalAsInteger) < int(CostNoEvalAsInteger)
-      ),
-      PlainObject,
-      typename ref_selector<T>::type
+        ( (int(evaluator<T>::Flags) & EvalBeforeNestingBit) ||
+          (int(CostEvalAsInteger) < int(CostNoEvalAsInteger)) ),
+        PlainObject,
+        typename ref_selector<T>::type
   >::type type;
 };
 
@@ -366,6 +394,15 @@ struct dense_xpr_base<Derived, ArrayXpr>
   typedef ArrayBase<Derived> type;
 };
 
+template<typename Derived, typename XprKind = typename traits<Derived>::XprKind, typename StorageKind = typename traits<Derived>::StorageKind>
+struct generic_xpr_base;
+
+template<typename Derived, typename XprKind>
+struct generic_xpr_base<Derived, XprKind, Dense>
+{
+  typedef typename dense_xpr_base<Derived,XprKind>::type type;
+};
+
 /** \internal Helper base class to add a scalar multiple operator
   * overloads for complex types */
 template<typename Derived,typename Scalar,typename OtherScalar,
@@ -383,13 +420,21 @@ struct special_scalar_op_base<Derived,Scalar,OtherScalar,true>  : public DenseCo
   const CwiseUnaryOp<scalar_multiple2_op<Scalar,OtherScalar>, Derived>
   operator*(const OtherScalar& scalar) const
   {
+#ifdef EIGEN_SPECIAL_SCALAR_MULTIPLE_PLUGIN
+    EIGEN_SPECIAL_SCALAR_MULTIPLE_PLUGIN
+#endif
     return CwiseUnaryOp<scalar_multiple2_op<Scalar,OtherScalar>, Derived>
       (*static_cast<const Derived*>(this), scalar_multiple2_op<Scalar,OtherScalar>(scalar));
   }
 
   inline friend const CwiseUnaryOp<scalar_multiple2_op<Scalar,OtherScalar>, Derived>
   operator*(const OtherScalar& scalar, const Derived& matrix)
-  { return static_cast<const special_scalar_op_base&>(matrix).operator*(scalar); }
+  {
+#ifdef EIGEN_SPECIAL_SCALAR_MULTIPLE_PLUGIN
+    EIGEN_SPECIAL_SCALAR_MULTIPLE_PLUGIN
+#endif
+    return static_cast<const special_scalar_op_base&>(matrix).operator*(scalar);
+  }
 };
 
 template<typename XprType, typename CastType> struct cast_return_type
@@ -401,12 +446,59 @@ template<typename XprType, typename CastType> struct cast_return_type
                               const XprType&,CastType>::type type;
 };
 
-template <typename A, typename B> struct promote_storage_type;
+/** \internal Specify the "storage kind" of applying a coefficient-wise
+  * binary operations between two expressions of kinds A and B respectively.
+  * The template parameter Functor permits to specialize the resulting storage kind wrt to
+  * the functor.
+  * The default rules are as follows:
+  * \code
+  * A     op A      -> A
+  * A     op dense  -> dense
+  * dense op B      -> dense
+  * A     *  dense  -> A
+  * dense *  B      -> B
+  * \endcode
+  */
+template <typename A, typename B, typename Functor> struct cwise_promote_storage_type;
+
+template <typename A, typename Functor>                   struct cwise_promote_storage_type<A,A,Functor>                                      { typedef A     ret; };
+template <typename Functor>                               struct cwise_promote_storage_type<Dense,Dense,Functor>                              { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <typename ScalarA, typename ScalarB>             struct cwise_promote_storage_type<Dense,Dense,scalar_product_op<ScalarA,ScalarB> >  { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <typename A, typename Functor>                   struct cwise_promote_storage_type<A,Dense,Functor>                                  { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <typename B, typename Functor>                   struct cwise_promote_storage_type<Dense,B,Functor>                                  { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <typename A, typename ScalarA, typename ScalarB> struct cwise_promote_storage_type<A,Dense,scalar_product_op<ScalarA,ScalarB> >      { typedef A     ret; };
+template <typename B, typename ScalarA, typename ScalarB> struct cwise_promote_storage_type<Dense,B,scalar_product_op<ScalarA,ScalarB> >      { typedef B     ret; };
+
+/** \internal Specify the "storage kind" of multiplying an expression of kind A with kind B.
+  * The template parameter ProductTag permits to specialize the resulting storage kind wrt to
+  * some compile-time properties of the product: GemmProduct, GemvProduct, OuterProduct, InnerProduct.
+  * The default rules are as follows:
+  * \code
+  *  K * K            -> K
+  *  dense * K        -> dense
+  *  K * dense        -> dense
+  *  diag * K         -> K
+  *  K * diag         -> K
+  *  Perm * K         -> K
+  * K * Perm          -> K
+  * \endcode
+  */
+template <typename A, typename B, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type;
 
-template <typename A> struct promote_storage_type<A,A>
-{
-  typedef A ret;
-};
+template <typename A, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<A,                  A,                  ProductTag> { typedef A     ret;};
+template <int ProductTag>             struct product_promote_storage_type<Dense,              Dense,              ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret;};
+template <typename A, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<A,                  Dense,              ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <typename B, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<Dense,              B,                  ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret; };
+
+template <typename A, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<A,                  DiagonalShape,      ProductTag> { typedef A ret; };
+template <typename B, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<DiagonalShape,      B,                  ProductTag> { typedef B ret; };
+template <int ProductTag>             struct product_promote_storage_type<Dense,              DiagonalShape,      ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <int ProductTag>             struct product_promote_storage_type<DiagonalShape,      Dense,              ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret; };
+
+template <typename A, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<A,                  PermutationStorage, ProductTag> { typedef A ret; };
+template <typename B, int ProductTag> struct product_promote_storage_type<PermutationStorage, B,                  ProductTag> { typedef B ret; };
+template <int ProductTag>             struct product_promote_storage_type<Dense,              PermutationStorage, ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret; };
+template <int ProductTag>             struct product_promote_storage_type<PermutationStorage, Dense,              ProductTag> { typedef Dense ret; };
 
 /** \internal gives the plain matrix or array type to store a row/column/diagonal of a matrix type.
   * \param Scalar optional parameter allowing to pass a different scalar type than the one of the MatrixType.
@@ -464,8 +556,36 @@ struct is_lvalue
                  bool(traits<ExpressionType>::Flags & LvalueBit) };
 };
 
+template<typename T> struct is_diagonal
+{ enum { ret = false }; };
+
+template<typename T> struct is_diagonal<DiagonalBase<T> >
+{ enum { ret = true }; };
+
+template<typename T> struct is_diagonal<DiagonalWrapper<T> >
+{ enum { ret = true }; };
+
+template<typename T, int S> struct is_diagonal<DiagonalMatrix<T,S> >
+{ enum { ret = true }; };
+
+template<typename S1, typename S2> struct glue_shapes;
+template<> struct glue_shapes<DenseShape,TriangularShape> { typedef TriangularShape type;  };
+
 } // end namespace internal
 
+// we require Lhs and Rhs to have the same scalar type. Currently there is no example of a binary functor
+// that would take two operands of different types. If there were such an example, then this check should be
+// moved to the BinaryOp functors, on a per-case basis. This would however require a change in the BinaryOp functors, as
+// currently they take only one typename Scalar template parameter.
+// It is tempting to always allow mixing different types but remember that this is often impossible in the vectorized paths.
+// So allowing mixing different types gives very unexpected errors when enabling vectorization, when the user tries to
+// add together a float matrix and a double matrix.
+#define EIGEN_CHECK_BINARY_COMPATIBILIY(BINOP,LHS,RHS) \
+  EIGEN_STATIC_ASSERT((internal::functor_is_product_like<BINOP>::ret \
+                        ? int(internal::scalar_product_traits<LHS, RHS>::Defined) \
+                        : int(internal::is_same<LHS, RHS>::value)), \
+    YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY)
+    
 } // end namespace Eigen
 
 #endif // EIGEN_XPRHELPER_H