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Flieger is correct about the high dome pistons found on normally aspirated 911 engines. There are advantages for our flat dome turbo engines also.
Twin plugs get the flame front started from both sides of the cylinder (the stock single plug is at one end) so the mixture burns faster. Twin plugs are good for a little bit of torque (since you can run a little less timing advance) and .5 point of static compression (a faster burning mixture is less likely to auto-ignite).

If I were building a race engine or already had EFI and was doing a rebuild, I'd do it. On my CIS car it wouldn't be worth the extra expense.
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