I've been struggling to keep plots readable with --x/ylim-stddev, it may
have been the wrong tool for the job.
This adds --x/ylim-ratio as an alternative, which just sets the limit to
include x-percent of the data (I avoided "percen"t in the name because
it should be --x/ylim-ratio=0.98, not 98, though I'm not sure "ratio" is
great either...).
Like --x/ylim-stddev, this can be used in both one and two argument
forms:
$ ./scripts/plot.py --ylim-ratio=0.98
$ ./scripts/plot.py --ylim-=-0.98,+0.98
So far, --x/ylim-ratio has proven much easier to use, maybe because our
amortized results don't follow a normal distribution? --x/ylim-ratio
seems to do a good job of clipping runaway amortized results without too
much information loss.
Christopher Haster
c9691503bc