关于afnetworking源码中AFPercentEscapedStringFromString方法的疑问

这两天在看afnetworking的源码，发现AFURLRequestSerialization.m文件里有这么一个方法，
用来把url查询字符串中的一些特殊字符转换的。
不理解的是batchSize ＝ 50 的作用是什么，为什么是50而不是其他的值？
而且，要实现相同的功能还有其他方法吗？

static NSString * AFPercentEscapedStringFromString(NSString *string) {
    static NSString * const kAFCharactersGeneralDelimitersToEncode = @":#[]@"; // does not include "?" or "/" due to RFC 3986 - Section 3.4
    static NSString * const kAFCharactersSubDelimitersToEncode = @"!$&'()*+,;=";

    NSMutableCharacterSet * allowedCharacterSet = [[NSCharacterSet URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet] mutableCopy];
    [allowedCharacterSet removeCharactersInString:[kAFCharactersGeneralDelimitersToEncode stringByAppendingString:kAFCharactersSubDelimitersToEncode]];

    // FIXME: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/pull/3028
    // return [string stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:allowedCharacterSet];

    static NSUInteger const batchSize = 50;

    NSInteger index = 0;
    NSMutableString *escaped = @"".mutableCopy;

    while (index < string.length) {
        NSUInteger length = MIN(string.length - index, batchSize);
        NSRange range = NSMakeRange(index, length);

        // To avoid breaking up character sequences such as ????
        range = [string rangeOfComposedCharacterSequencesForRange:range];

        NSString *substring = [string substringWithRange:range];
        NSString *encoded = [substring stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:allowedCharacterSet];
        [escaped appendString:encoded];

        index += range.length;
    }

    return escaped;
}