Sliding window encoding methods for executing vector compare instructions to write distance and match information to different sections of the same register

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium that stores program code that when processed by a processor causes the processor to perform a method comprising:

• decoding a plurality of instructions into a decoded plurality of instructions;
• and
• executing the decoded plurality of instructions, each of said decoded plurality of instructions receiving an input value having a first section to store a location of a byte sequence within data and a second section to store the byte sequence of said data, each of said decoded plurality of instructions having a respective input vector, of multiple input vectors, having multiple elements each having a first section to store a respective location of a respective byte sequence within said data and a second section to store the respective byte sequence of said data, each of said decoded plurality of instructions causing different sections of a same resultant vector register to be written into with their respective results without overwriting a result of another of said decoded plurality of instructions, each of said respective results providing a distance and number of matches between said input value and elements of a respective one of said multiple input vectors.