I haven't read the references you posted earlier, so please forgive me if that one was already suggested.
You could store for each location an array of ranges that contain it:
# range A : 1-3
# range B : 5-6
# leads to
my @ranges = [
[], # 0
['1-3'], # 1
['1-3'], # 2
['1-3'], # 3
[], # 4
['5-6'], # 5
['5-6'], # 6
];
Once this table is built, for every range it's very fast to test which other ranges overlap.
To save memory, you can also use a string in each location, so that if you have ranges 1-5 and 4-6, the entry for for 5 would be 1-5,4-6.
One million strings should fit into memory. If the array is rather sparse, you could also use a hash instead.
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