These constants are small and can fit even in `u8`, but semantically they have type `usize` because they denote sizes and are almost always used in `usize` context. The change of their type to `u32` during the integer audit led only to the large amount of `as usize` noise (see the second commit, which removes this noise).
This is a minor [breaking-change] to an unstable interface.
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