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: ltable.h,v 2.10.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Lua tables (hash)
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef ltable_h
#define ltable_h
#include "lobject.h"
#define gnode(t,i) (&(t)->node[i])
#define gkey(n) (&(n)->i_key.nk)
#define gval(n) (&(n)->i_val)
#define gnext(n) ((n)->i_key.nk.next)
#define key2tval(n) (&(n)->i_key.tvk)
LUAI_FUNC const TValue *luaH_getnum (Table *t, int key);
LUAI_FUNC TValue *luaH_setnum (lua_State *L, Table *t, int key);
LUAI_FUNC const TValue *luaH_getstr (Table *t, TString *key);
LUAI_FUNC TValue *luaH_setstr (lua_State *L, Table *t, TString *key);
LUAI_FUNC const TValue *luaH_get (Table *t, const TValue *key);
LUAI_FUNC TValue *luaH_set (lua_State *L, Table *t, const TValue *key);
LUAI_FUNC Table *luaH_new (lua_State *L, int narray, int lnhash);
LUAI_FUNC void luaH_resizearray (lua_State *L, Table *t, int nasize);
LUAI_FUNC void luaH_free (lua_State *L, Table *t);
LUAI_FUNC int luaH_next (lua_State *L, Table *t, StkId key);
LUAI_FUNC int luaH_getn (Table *t);
#if defined(LUA_DEBUG)
LUAI_FUNC Node *luaH_mainposition (const Table *t, const TValue *key);
LUAI_FUNC int luaH_isdummy (Node *n);
#endif
#endif