1. A method for compressing a set of instructions for a node in a adaptive computing machine, the method comprising: identifying frequently executed instruction in the set of instructions for an information processing device; inserting an explicit caching instruction in the set of instructions before the identified instruction, wherein the explicit caching instruction associates the identified instruction with at least one index value; and replacing at least one instance of the frequently executed instruction subsequent to the explicit caching instruction with a compressed instruction referencing the index value.