Option to turn off box selection limit

Currently, if you have a large number of objects in your viewport and you try to box select them, if the number of objects is over a certain unknown limit then Blender will select none of them. The only solution to this currently is to select them bit by bit with shift + box select, which is time consuming. I'm not sure if this selection limit is to improve performance, but it would be nice to have an option to turn it on and off, as the increase in performance will be negligible compared to the loss in functionality for users with more powerful hardware.