Krdytkyu

I want to combine two list in the following way without using Table or any loop structure.

genList[n_] := Table[RandomInteger[{1, 10}, 4], n]  (* list generating function*)

The two lists that needs to be combined are:-

list1 = genList[3]

list2 = genList[4]

What I want to achieve is as follows:-

Partition[

          Flatten[

                 Table[{list1[[i]], list2[[j]]}, {i, 1 

                 Length[list1]},{j,1 Length[list2]}]

                 ]

       ,8]

So I simply need to enumerate each of the elements of list 1 combined with all of the elements of list 2.

What would be an efficient way of doing this with large lists?

Let's say with Length[list1] = 100 and Length[list2] = 200.

Also Length[list2] > Length[list1]

Join @@@ Tuples[{list1, list2}] (* or *)

Flatten /@ Tuples[{list1, list2}] (* or *)

Join @@ Outer[Join, list1, list2, 1]

{{5, 3, 5, 4, 9, 2, 10, 6}, {5, 3, 5, 4, 10, 6, 4, 7},

{5, 3, 5, 4, 2,
1, 7, 1}, {5, 3, 5, 4, 6, 6, 1, 9},

{2, 6, 9, 5, 9, 2, 10, 6}, {2,
6, 9, 5, 10, 6, 4, 7},

{2, 6, 9, 5, 2, 1, 7, 1}, {2, 6, 9, 5, 6, 6,
1, 9}, {10, 8, 9, 6, 9, 2, 10, 6},

{10, 8, 9, 6, 10, 6, 4, 7}, {10,
8, 9, 6, 2, 1, 7, 1}, {10, 8, 9, 6, 6, 6, 1, 9}}

This is a variant of kglr's approach that employs ArrayFlatten instead of mapping Flatten. Notice also that I changed genList so that it produces packed arrays; this is crucial for performance.

genList[n_] := RandomInteger[{1, 10}, {n, 4}];

m = 100;

n = 100;

list1 = genList[m];

list2 = genList[n];



a = Partition[Flatten[Table[{list1[[i]], list2[[j]]}, {i, 1 Length[list1]}, {j, 1 Length[list2]}]], 8]; // RepeatedTiming // First

b = Flatten /@ Tuples[{list1, list2}]; // RepeatedTiming // First

c = ArrayReshape[

     Tuples[{list1, list2}],

     {Length[list1] Length[list2], Dimensions[list1][[2]] + Dimensions[list2][[2]]}

     ]; // RepeatedTiming // First

a == b == c

0.026

0.0012

0.000095

True