Eigen 3 is a C++ template library for linear algebra: It is: * Versatile. Eigen handles and in a completely integrated way: o both fixed-size and dynamic-size matrices and vectors. o both dense and sparse matrices and vectors. o both plain matrices/vectors and abstract expressions. o both column-major (the default) and row-major matrix storage. o both basic matrix/vector manipulation and many more advanced, specialized modules providing algorithms for linear algebra, geometry, quaternions, or advanced array manipulation. * Fast. o Expression templates allow to intelligently remove temporaries and enable lazy evaluation, when that is appropriate. o Explicit vectorization is performed for the SSE (2 and later) and AltiVec instruction sets, with graceful fallback to non-vectorized code. o With fixed-size objects, dynamic memory allocation is avoided, and the loops are unrolled when that makes sense. o For large matrices, special attention is paid to cache-friendliness. * Elegant. The API is extremely clean and expressive, thanks to expression templates. Implementing an algorithm on top of Eigen feels like just copying pseudocode. You can use complex expressions and still rely on Eigen to produce optimized code: there is no need for you to manually decompose expressions into small steps. * Compiler-friendy. Eigen has good compiler support, is standard C++98 and maintains very reasonable compilation times.