diff --git a/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/operation/CountUntrimmed.java b/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/operation/CountUntrimmed.java
index da0c419f19..4caa5fb247 100644
--- a/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/operation/CountUntrimmed.java
+++ b/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/operation/CountUntrimmed.java
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ import org.enso.table.data.column.storage.ColumnStorage;
 import org.enso.table.data.column.storage.StringStorage;
 import org.enso.table.data.table.Column;
 import org.graalvm.polyglot.Context;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
 
 public class CountUntrimmed {
+  private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CountUntrimmed.class);
+
   /** Counts the number of cells in the columns with leading or trailing whitespace. */
   public static long apply(Column column) {
     ColumnStorage storage = column.getStorage();
@@ -16,8 +20,11 @@ public class CountUntrimmed {
   /** Counts the number of cells in the given storage with leading or trailing whitespace. */
   public static long applyToStorage(ColumnStorage storage) {
     if (storage instanceof StringStorage stringStorage) {
+      LOGGER.warn("Using memoized implementation for StringStorage");
       return stringStorage.countLeadingTrailingWhitespace();
     }
+
+    LOGGER.warn("Using fall back implementation for ColumnStorage");
     return compute(storage);
   }
 
@@ -29,7 +36,7 @@ public class CountUntrimmed {
       var val = storage.getItemAsObject(i);
       if (val instanceof String str) {
         if (Text_Utils.has_leading_trailing_whitespace(str)) {
-          count++;
+          count += 100;
         }
       }
       context.safepoint();
diff --git a/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/storage/StringStorage.java b/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/storage/StringStorage.java
index 3f503f7512..a88dddc018 100644
--- a/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/storage/StringStorage.java
+++ b/std-bits/table/src/main/java/org/enso/table/data/column/storage/StringStorage.java
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 package org.enso.table.data.column.storage;
 
 import java.util.BitSet;
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
 import org.enso.base.CompareException;
 import org.enso.base.Text_Utils;
 import org.enso.table.data.column.operation.CountUntrimmed;
@@ -16,9 +22,12 @@ import org.enso.table.data.column.operation.map.text.StringStringOp;
 import org.enso.table.data.column.storage.type.StorageType;
 import org.enso.table.data.column.storage.type.TextType;
 import org.graalvm.polyglot.Context;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /** A column storing strings. */
 public final class StringStorage extends SpecializedStorage<String> {
+  private static final Executor EXECUTOR = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
+  private static final org.slf4j.Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(StringStorage.class);
 
   private final TextType type;
   private long _countLeadingTrailingWhitespace = -1;
@@ -31,6 +40,10 @@ public final class StringStorage extends SpecializedStorage<String> {
   public StringStorage(String[] data, int size, TextType type) {
     super(data, size, buildOps());
     this.type = type;
+
+    CompletableFuture.runAsync(
+        this::countLeadingTrailingWhitespace,
+        EXECUTOR);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -55,10 +68,12 @@ public final class StringStorage extends SpecializedStorage<String> {
    */
   public Long countLeadingTrailingWhitespace() {
     if (_countLeadingTrailingWhitespace >= 0) {
+      LOGGER.warn("Using memoized implementation for StringStorage");
       return _countLeadingTrailingWhitespace;
     }
 
     _countLeadingTrailingWhitespace = CountUntrimmed.compute(this);
+    LOGGER.warn("Counted leading and trailing whitespace in the column " + this.size);
     return _countLeadingTrailingWhitespace;
   }