[aidenn0]

LuaJIT is one of the faster JIT VMs in existence.

Lighttpd and nginx both started to get mind-share in the english speaking world at about the same time (nginx was written by native russian speakers IIRC).

Lighttpd was faster than apache for the same reason that nginx was, a more modern, non-blocking design.

I don't think that lighttpd is written in lua though. It probably supports lua scripting, though I haven't used that feature of it.