[lukan]

"Is this about optimized code in terms of cpu cache aligned instruction pipelines etc?"

That is what I would assume, but so far I did not found a reason explaining the limit. Might also just be like it, because the author likes it like it.

[dmonitor]

Author stated in the thread that the limit doesn't exist. It's just a joke

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42627930