1. A processor comprising: a non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions, which when read by the machine-readable medium, causes the processor to: execute one or more gather setup operations in anticipation of one or more gather operations, the gather setup operations to compute a gather state to be used by subsequent gather operations, wherein the computation of the gather state by the gather setup operations is to include to determine one or more addresses of vector data elements to be gathered by the gather operations, and wherein the gather state comprises a non-architectural processor state stored within one or more internal processor storage locations; and execute the one or more gather operations to gather vector data elements using the gather state computed by the gather setup operations.