#! perl -slw use strict; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; use List::Util qw[ shuffle ]; use Time::HiRes qw[ time ]; our $N //= 1e3; our $S //= 1e4; our $Z //= 5; my @bools = (0) x $N; my @sets = map [ map int( rand $N ), 1 .. 1 + int( rand $Z ) ],1 .. $S; my @someOrder = shuffle 0 .. $N-1; my $start = time; for my $next ( @someOrder ) { $bools[ $next ] = 1; for my $set ( reverse 0 .. $#sets ) { if( grep( $bools[ $_ ], @{ $sets[ $set ] } ) == @{ $sets[ $set ] } ) { splice @sets, $set, 1; } } } printf "Took %.6f\n", time() - $start; __END__ C:\test>junk27 Took 11.623000