The is no. At least for Squeak. I guess it's the same for VW.
Bernard Pottier pointed this issue (in his talk last ESUG conference ?)

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Le 2 mai 06, à 15:40, THOMAS JAMES a écrit :

> Is there any advantage in a dual-core processor when running Smalltalk?
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