I know there are a couple of thread on similar topics ( What's the best (for speed) arbitrary-precision library for C++? and The best cross platform (portable) arbitrary precision math library ) and I take from these threads than GMP or something based on it like MPFR is the fastest lib available, but I am specifically wondering: if I only wanted say 30 dec places would __float128 of the quadmath lib be faster?
Also how does MAPM stack up against MPFR?
It looks from this website:
http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/benchs/timings-mpfr.html
that MPFR does pretty well, but there are also CLN and apfloat?