It is possible to count them in Microsoft office (words). Use find if, &, or other subjects of interest.

I think you need to be more specific about your cycle counting requirements. As has been stated previously, this is an unsolved problem in the general sense. However, for certain practical applications (e.g. real time DSP), cycle counting is possible - essential even - for proper operation. The critical pieces of code are usually very short, however..and contain only a single execution path for the critical part of the code (they are usually short interrupt-driven routines). Furthermore, critical code segments must disable all interrupts, otherwise cycle counting is useless. This is why high speed real-time processing is best done in dedicated ASIC processors or FPGAs.

Valgrind