1. A method for program execution using an alternate instruction set, comprising: enabling a computer processor to use an alternate instruction set, wherein each instruction in the alternate instruction set maps to a standard instruction for the computer processor; a first computer program in memory issuing a first instruction for execution by the computer processor; the computer processor determining that the first instruction issued by the first computer program is in the alternate instruction set; the computer processor translating the first instruction issued by the first computer program into the mapped standard instruction for the computer processor; and the computer processor executing the mapped standard instruction.