After experimenting with a long running average at maxed out FPS and a variety of map sizes, 128 seems to actually be a good size to use if only drawing bits of world with stuff in it. 64 actually did even better in some situations, but significantly worse in others (lots of land, zoomed out).
/* SDLMain.m - main entry point for our Cocoa-ized SDL app
Initial Version: Darrell Walisser <dwaliss1@purdue.edu>
Non-NIB-Code & other changes: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Feel free to customize this file to suit your needs
*/
#ifndef _SDLMain_h_
#define _SDLMain_h_
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@interface SDLMain : NSObject
@end
#endif /* _SDLMain_h_ */