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I managed to recompile imagemagick without that suspicious XDelay call - works just as fine, as with it. And, finally, fast! Woot!
$ time import -window 0x02a003fb -verbose -silent w.bmp
w.bmp PS 562x252 16-bit DirectClass 422KB 0.020u 0:00.030

real 0m0.054s
user 0m0.033s
sys 0m0.007s
So here is ...

Version 6.7.5 and the bug is still exists. strace shows, that while import is working it stops for 0.8s at some point
nanosleep({0, 800000000}, NULL) = 0 <0.800084>
I've traced this delay till XImportImage function (magick/xwindow.c). At some this function do call
XDelay(display,SuspendTime << 4 ...

Bump. Imagemagick version in my distro updated to 6.6.1-4 but problem remains. I checked import -window command on other PC with Ubuntu 9.10 and got the same pause. But finally I found a way to retrieve screenshot faster:
$ time dash -c 'import -verbose -window 0x0420001e import.png'
import.png PS ...

Actually with -screen it's even worse.
17:30:35:~$ time import -verbose -screen -window $winid -pause 0 -delay 0 /dev/shm/pic-screen.bmp
/dev/shm/pic.bmp PS 266x158 1600x1200+4+23 16-bit DirectClass 123KB 0.020u 0:00.029

real 0m1.898s
user 0m1.200s
sys 0m0.137s
17:30:45:~$ time import -verbose ...

Here is an example:
$time import -verbose -window 0x03c0001e -pause 0 -delay 0 /dev/shm/pic.bmp
/dev/shm/pic.bmp PS 266x158 16-bit DirectClass 123KB 0.010u 0:00.009

real 0m0.821s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m0.003s
This takes screenshot of a fairly small window, uses no compression and stores result in ...