Strange regression in xbacklight behavior in as of about a year ago...

~ $ time xbacklight -set 20 -time 0 -steps 1

real 0m3.654s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.010s
It didn't use to take this long, and the whole system pauses while it does it.
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