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-**Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms.**
+This repository contains additions, enhancements, and bug fixes for the Eigen C++ template library.
 
-For more information go to http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/.
+Among other things, this branch introduced support for AVX and FMA instructions, performance improvements for the matrix multiplication kernels, as well as the Tensor library.
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+New changes are regularly merged into the Eigen trunk.
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