Nicer whiskers plot

[serpent7776]

• add missing encoding when opening input file
• add labels to x ticks, rotated by 45 deg
• sort data by median, ascending

I like this layout much more, but if needed I can hide new functionality behind command line flags.

[sharkdp]

Thank you!

Can you provide a before-and-after screenshot?

sort data by median, ascending

This would be nice to have as an option, but I prefer benchmarks to be ordered by input ordering — by default.

[serpent7776]

Sure, here's the old version:

This is the new version (one issue is that longer labels are cut off):

I can fix the issue by applying plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6), constrained_layout=True), but I don't know why this works:

[sharkdp]

Cool — looks great! If we can hide the sorting feature behind a command line option (maybe --sort-by=…), I'm happy to merge this.

[serpent7776]

Updated the code.

[sharkdp]

Thank you