COQL or deluge API, how to get the total count that match criteria?

COQL or deluge API, how to get the total count that match criteria?

This is a simple count, but given the 200 record limit, and the fact that I don't need any of the results, just the count, why do I have to page through and perform such an expensive operation. The following shows how I successfully used deluge and COQL to aggregate a count, but again, there must be an easier way that is less expensive.  The following I use to count Contacts, and it iterates 32 times, that's 32 queries, just to get a single number: row count.

  1. selectQuery = "select id from Contacts WHERE id is not null";
    /**
    * @param {String} selectQuery - The select query to be executed
    * e.g. select id from module where id is not null
    * NOTE: the select query will have limit appended to it.  You must select the id.
    */
    queryMap = Map();
    attempt = " ";
    retryLoop = attempt.leftPad(99).replaceAll(" ",","); // Creates 100 loops
    iteration = 0;
    aggregateIds = List();
    for each retry in retryLoop
    {
      info "iteration: " + iteration;
      queryMap.put("select_query", selectQuery + " limit " + iteration*200 + ", 200");
      response = invokeurl
      [
        url :"https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v3/coql"
        type :POST
        parameters:queryMap.toString()
        connection: "coql"
      ];
      //  Create a combined List
      for each pointer in response.get("data")
      {
          aggregateIds.add(pointer.get("id"));
      }
      if(response.get("info").get("more_records") == false)
      {
        break;
      }
      iteration = iteration + 1;
    }

    aggregateIdsSize = aggregateIds.size();
    info "aggregateIds: " + aggregateIdsSize + " for " + selectQuery;
    return aggregateIdsSize;
How can this be done more simply, with less computation and complication?

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