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).
/*
** $Id: ltm.c,v 2.8.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Tag methods
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#include <string.h>
#define ltm_c
#define LUA_CORE
#include "lua.h"
#include "lobject.h"
#include "lstate.h"
#include "lstring.h"
#include "ltable.h"
#include "ltm.h"
const char *const luaT_typenames[] = {
"nil", "boolean", "userdata", "number",
"string", "table", "function", "userdata", "thread",
"proto", "upval"
};
void luaT_init (lua_State *L) {
static const char *const luaT_eventname[] = { /* ORDER TM */
"__index", "__newindex",
"__gc", "__mode", "__eq",
"__add", "__sub", "__mul", "__div", "__mod",
"__pow", "__unm", "__len", "__lt", "__le",
"__concat", "__call"
};
int i;
for (i=0; i<TM_N; i++) {
G(L)->tmname[i] = luaS_new(L, luaT_eventname[i]);
luaS_fix(G(L)->tmname[i]); /* never collect these names */
}
}
/*
** function to be used with macro "fasttm": optimized for absence of
** tag methods
*/
const TValue *luaT_gettm (Table *events, TMS event, TString *ename) {
const TValue *tm = luaH_getstr(events, ename);
lua_assert(event <= TM_EQ);
if (ttisnil(tm)) { /* no tag method? */
events->flags |= cast_byte(1u<<event); /* cache this fact */
return NULL;
}
else return tm;
}
const TValue *luaT_gettmbyobj (lua_State *L, const TValue *o, TMS event) {
Table *mt;
switch (ttype(o)) {
case LUA_TTABLE:
mt = hvalue(o)->metatable;
break;
case LUA_TUSERDATA:
mt = uvalue(o)->metatable;
break;
default:
mt = G(L)->mt[ttype(o)];
}
return (mt ? luaH_getstr(mt, G(L)->tmname[event]) : luaO_nilobject);
}