Hey:
After messing around with Python for some time for large numerical calculations, I realized that Python is just too slow. It's great for smaller numbers, not to mention easy. However, once I start getting into numbers above around five hundred digits in size, it slows down drastically. So, I've looked into C++ for calculations. However, the Integer data type only goes up to around 2 billion (not digits - total value) - not nearly enough.
To combat this problem, I've looked into Bignum libraries, like the GNU MP (GMP) library. However, I just can't seem to understand the documentation that's supplied with GNU MP, as it's mostly geared towards C users, rather than C++ users.
Can someone point me to a nice, well-written tutorial/guide for using GNU MP? I've already googled for one, but the standard manual seems to be about it. If you can't recommend a good set of instructions for GNU MP, can you recommend a better (or, at least, different) bignum/arbitrary-precision library?
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
If there isn't really anything good for C++, is there another language that would be better for large computations?