# Intrinsics for Miscellaneous Operations

Parent topic: Intrinsics for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2)

- _mm256_alignr_epi8
  Aligns elements of two source vectors depending on bits in a mask. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VPALIGNR.
- _mm256_movemask_epi8
  Moves byte mask from source vector. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VPMOVMSKB.
- _mm256_stream_load_si256
  Loads 256-bit data from memory using non-temporal aligned hint. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VMOVNTDQA.