I think Gnome is more resource hungry. Two examples are xine(a multimedia player) and the command "find" available in both environments. My machine(PIII 600, 256MB-RAM) can run xine at its full speed (200 frames on 200) only under KDE. Also if i try to find a file using the respective tool, KDE is faster. These examples suggest KDE is more SPEED-OPTIMIZED. Obviously this is only my opinion...may be someone agree with me Ragno "The Spider" Stefano.
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