title: Fastest programming language for computing large numbers?
body: <p>If I wanted to compute numbers with hundreds of millions of digits (positive integers), which programming language would be best suited for that?</p>
  
  <p>Currently I'm using python and the script is running and it was easy to code, but I have concerns for its speed.</p>
  
  <p>I don't really know much about assembly at all so while it MAY be the fastest, I would rather not use that. Is C the best choice here?</p>
  
  <p>The specific operations I have to use are *, -, % (mod), exponentiation, equality testing (if statements), and basic looping and some sort of outputting capability (console output for example).</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks.</p>