qdist: add module to represent frequency distributions of data

Sometimes it is useful to have a quick histogram to represent a certain
distribution -- for example, when investigating a performance regression
in a hash table due to inadequate hashing.

The appended allows us to easily represent a distribution using Unicode
characters. Further, the data structure keeping track of the distribution
is so simple that obtaining its values for off-line processing is trivial.

Example, taking the last 10 commits to QEMU:

 Characters in commit title  Count
-----------------------------------
                         39      1
                         48      1
                         53      1
                         54      2
                         57      1
                         61      1
                         67      1
                         78      1
                         80      1
qdist_init(&dist);
qdist_inc(&dist, 39);
[...]
qdist_inc(&dist, 80);

char *str = qdist_pr(&dist, 9, QDIST_PR_LABELS);
// -> [39.0,43.6)▂▂ █▂ ▂ ▄[75.4,80.0]
g_free(str);

char *str = qdist_pr(&dist, 4, QDIST_PR_LABELS);
// -> [39.0,49.2)▁█▁▁[69.8,80.0]
g_free(str);

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Message-Id: <1465412133-3029-9-git-send-email-cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

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