tustvold commented on code in PR #2593:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/2593#discussion_r966428417


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arrow/src/row/variable.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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+//
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+//
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+
+use crate::compute::SortOptions;
+use crate::row::Rows;
+use crate::util::bit_util::ceil;
+
+/// The block size of the variable length encoding
+pub const BLOCK_SIZE: usize = 32;
+
+/// Returns the length of the encoded representation of a byte array
+pub fn encoded_len(a: Option<&[u8]>) -> usize {
+    match a {
+        Some(a) => 1 + ceil(a.len(), BLOCK_SIZE) * (BLOCK_SIZE + 1),
+        None => 1,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Variable length values are encoded as
+///
+/// - leading `0` bit if null otherwise `1`
+/// - 31 bits big endian length

Review Comment:
   Yeah this docstring is outdated, I switched to a block encoding



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