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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:28PM (#10617806)
Historical reasons...after nginx started blowing Apache's performance out of the water, Apache addressed some fundamental architectural issues and caught (mostly) up.

As an example, I would refer you to a discussion down this thread about Apache 1.x forking for concurrent connections.