Jerky Genie Effect? A Slightly Different Question.

Occasionally the genie effect will suddenly become jerky.
A few months ago I searched the forums and found that one cure was to log out and then back in again.
Apparently the finder or desktop get "tired" and logging out refreshes everything.
I think my problems are caused because I generally have about 40 items sitting on my desktop, which I believe wastes a lot of computing power. So every now and again I get rid of half of them.
I also have some 50 items in the dock! Will each of these icons be as damaging as the others on the desktop?
In other words, should I keep the items in the dock down to a minimum just as I should keep down those on the desktop?

What brought this to mind was a video I was watching in Final Cut Pro this morning.
It started playing a little hesitantly (something that never happens) and thinking it might be a similar issue, I logged out and in.
Lo and behold the video played perfectly.
It was then I realised I had more things in the dock than on the desktop. So I have pruned both, just in case they are impacting on performance.

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