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>If I would like to change or append a few bytes in or to an 1M string,
>Lua creates a new 1M string?

Yes.

If you want mutable strings, try creating them on the C side with
lua_newuserdata. However, this will only work if you do not change the size
of the string (you can always create a string longer than you need initially).
--lhf