Tiburon(Delphi2008)のUnicode周りとか

http://bousyo.blog45.fc2.com/blog-entry-195.htmlより、Delphi2008の情報が出ていますね。
UnicodeString型はUTF8ではなくUTF16を格納するそうです。
たまたま最近見た記事に、UTF16はダメだ〜みたいなのがあったので、The Oracle at Delphiの記事も確認してみました。

Why didn’t you just use UTF8? It’s more compact than UTF16.

This was considered. However, this would have forced far more conversions throughout the VCL code as it talks to the Windows API, and it would have introduced a lot of very subtle breakages in much of user code. While a lot of code out there already handles DBCS (Double-byte character sets), that same code does not correctly handle characters that consist of > 2 bytes. In UTF8 a single character can be represented by as many as 6 bytes. [Correction: This is not the case in true UTF8. 5 and 6 byte sequences are illegal in UTF8 (thanks Aleksander)] In UTF8 a single character can be represented by as many as 4 bytes. Finally, UTF16 is the native format used internally by Windows itself. By calling directly to the "W" APIs, the "A" translation layer that Windows has is bypassed and should, in theory, increase performance in some cases.

UTF16を採用したほうが、既存のコードを使いやすく、Windowsとの相性も良いみたいです。
また、某所の記事に、

Delphi Parallel Library (DPL)
マルチスレッド関係のライブラリでしょうか。次期バージョンに含まれるかは未定だそうです。

WIN32ジェネリクス
開発中。

とありました。
DPLはマルチコア時代に対応できるのでしょうか。期待。
WIN32ジェネリクスは超期待。TListとかが使いやすくなるとすばらしい。