MichaelTerry
Instead, the half-life is defined in terms of probability. It is the time when the expected value of the number of entities that have decayed is equal to half the original number. For example, one can start with a single radioactive atom, wait its half-life, and measure whether or not it decays in that period of time. Perhaps it will and perhaps it will not. But if this experiment is repeated again and again, it will be seen that - on average - it decays within the half-life 50% of the time."
That said, of course, how much you can actually do and how fast you can do it depends a lot on the hardware you have available. Not every computer can run fast, high-quality graphics, no matter what language you coded in.
THAT said, C++ is considered a relatively high-performance language and is often used for things like advanced game graphics.