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: lvm.h,v 2.5.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Lua virtual machine
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef lvm_h
#define lvm_h
#include "ldo.h"
#include "lobject.h"
#include "ltm.h"
#define tostring(L,o) ((ttype(o) == LUA_TSTRING) || (luaV_tostring(L, o)))
#define tonumber(o,n) (ttype(o) == LUA_TNUMBER || \
(((o) = luaV_tonumber(o,n)) != NULL))
#define equalobj(L,o1,o2) \
(ttype(o1) == ttype(o2) && luaV_equalval(L, o1, o2))
LUAI_FUNC int luaV_lessthan (lua_State *L, const TValue *l, const TValue *r);
LUAI_FUNC int luaV_equalval (lua_State *L, const TValue *t1, const TValue *t2);
LUAI_FUNC const TValue *luaV_tonumber (const TValue *obj, TValue *n);
LUAI_FUNC int luaV_tostring (lua_State *L, StkId obj);
LUAI_FUNC void luaV_gettable (lua_State *L, const TValue *t, TValue *key,
StkId val);
LUAI_FUNC void luaV_settable (lua_State *L, const TValue *t, TValue *key,
StkId val);
LUAI_FUNC void luaV_execute (lua_State *L, int nexeccalls);
LUAI_FUNC void luaV_concat (lua_State *L, int total, int last);
#endif