HippoBaro opened a new pull request, #9751:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9751

   # Which issue does this PR close?
   
   - Spawn off to #9653 
   
   # Rationale for this change
   
   The literal `8` appeared in two distinct roles throughout `RleEncoder`, 
`RleDecoder`, and their tests. 
   
   # What changes are included in this PR?
   
   Replacing each with a named constant makes the intent explicit and prevents 
the two meanings from being confused.
   
   * `BIT_PACK_GROUP_SIZE = 8` The Parquet RLE/bit-packing hybrid format always 
bit-packs values in multiples of this count (spec: "we always bit-pack a 
multiple of 8 values at a time"). Every occurrence related to the staging 
buffer size, the repeat-count threshold that triggers the RLE decision, and the 
group-count arithmetic in bit-packed headers now uses this name.
   
   * `u8::BITS` (= 8, from std) Used wherever a bit-count is divided by 8 to 
obtain a byte-count (e.g. `ceil(bit_width, u8::BITS as usize)`). This is a 
bits-per-byte conversion, a fundamentally different concept from the 
packing-group size.
   
   No behaviour change.
   
   # Are these changes tested?
   
   All tests passing.
   
   # Are there any user-facing changes?
   
   None.
   


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