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: lualib.h,v 1.36.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Lua standard libraries
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef lualib_h
#define lualib_h
#include "lua.h"
/* Key to file-handle type */
#define LUA_FILEHANDLE "FILE*"
#define LUA_COLIBNAME "coroutine"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_base) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_TABLIBNAME "table"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_table) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_IOLIBNAME "io"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_io) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_OSLIBNAME "os"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_os) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_STRLIBNAME "string"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_string) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_MATHLIBNAME "math"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_math) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_DBLIBNAME "debug"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_debug) (lua_State *L);
#define LUA_LOADLIBNAME "package"
LUALIB_API int (luaopen_package) (lua_State *L);
/* open all previous libraries */
LUALIB_API void (luaL_openlibs) (lua_State *L);
#ifndef lua_assert
#define lua_assert(x) ((void)0)
#endif
#endif