Isn't this the true for all metrics? They are useful for pointing out problematic areas, but as soon as you start optimizing only based on the metric things wil

Isn't this the true for all metrics? They are useful for pointing out problematic areas, but as soon as you start optimizing only based on the metric things will get worse. Number of instructions is probably not a good metric. Without any loops/jumps you might have a lot of instructions, but a very low complexity. An endless loop executes a lot of instructions, but does not have to be complex.