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: lfunc.h,v 2.4.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Auxiliary functions to manipulate prototypes and closures
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef lfunc_h
#define lfunc_h
#include "lobject.h"
#define sizeCclosure(n) (cast(int, sizeof(CClosure)) + \
cast(int, sizeof(TValue)*((n)-1)))
#define sizeLclosure(n) (cast(int, sizeof(LClosure)) + \
cast(int, sizeof(TValue *)*((n)-1)))
LUAI_FUNC Proto *luaF_newproto (lua_State *L);
LUAI_FUNC Closure *luaF_newCclosure (lua_State *L, int nelems, Table *e);
LUAI_FUNC Closure *luaF_newLclosure (lua_State *L, int nelems, Table *e);
LUAI_FUNC UpVal *luaF_newupval (lua_State *L);
LUAI_FUNC UpVal *luaF_findupval (lua_State *L, StkId level);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_close (lua_State *L, StkId level);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_freeproto (lua_State *L, Proto *f);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_freeclosure (lua_State *L, Closure *c);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_freeupval (lua_State *L, UpVal *uv);
LUAI_FUNC const char *luaF_getlocalname (const Proto *func, int local_number,
int pc);
#endif