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> Do you really need
> "thread-safe" builds of these libs when using each instance of the modules
> only from the Lua state that requir()ed it? Or am I just getting lucky?
>

AFAIK, a shared library can only be loaded once (i.e. have one global
state) per process. If only that weren't true, many stateful libs
would become thread-safe automatically and the Lua C API wouldn't need
a state argument.