Endianness: Fixing the Glitch, and For Good!

Join us at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, June 3rd as Kim Phillips presents "Endianness: Fixing the Glitch, and For Good!"

An overview of endianness is presented, including attempts to rationalize its continued existence. An interim solution on deterministically fixing a code base to be endianness-independent follows. A review of Boost.Endian is then provided, including a proposal to ditch it for a more comprehensive solution.

Kim went from developing image compression algorithms in graduate school, to parallelizing a high volume sort engine, to adding OS support to a DSP architecture, to adding support for embedded networking chips in the upstream u-boot and linux kernel projects with an emphasis on crypto offload h/w. He also likes to think he can fix his carbureted bike in his spare time.

The talk will take place at Rackspace's Austin office, located on the East side of IH-35 right before Rundberg and after Henna Chevrolet (there is a sign for Rackspace which is visible from the highway). Feel free to park in the same lot as the big Rackspace flag.