- make MatrixBase and all expressions aware of their preferred traversal order.

Honor this preference in operator=.
- add several methods to the API
- rework API for diagonal matrices
- add benchmarking code

Eigen/src/Core/ScalarMultiple.h

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ template<typename FactorType, typename MatrixType> class ScalarMultiple : NoOper
       : m_matrix(matrix), m_factor(factor) {}
 
   private:
+    static const TraversalOrder _Order = MatrixType::Order;
     static const int _RowsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime,
                      _ColsAtCompileTime = MatrixType::ColsAtCompileTime;