Any way you could share a code example?  Or at least pseudo code for the 
technique?

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 3:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Count Words?

BY FAR the fastest way HANDS DOWN -- if you're looking for 16 or fewer 
characters -- is with the vector instructions...

On 6/14/2018 12:18 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Is there a modern, clever, efficient way to count words in a string where:
> o A separator is <TAB> or <SP> (+ others ad lib.) o A word is a 
> maximal non-empty sequence of consecutive non-separator characters.
> (Whew!)
>
> Do TRT and CLI remain the best primitives?  (TRT is reported to 
> perform badly, perhaps model-dependent.)
>
> Yah, I know: "The compiler knows best!"
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