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Setting lower quality increases the file size

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bug file size issue help wanted
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Description

# Expected Behavior

Decrease the file size with decrement in image quality.

# Current Behavior

Increase the file size with decrement in image quality.

# Code
```
jimp.read("./forest-patrol.jpg", (err, lenna) => {
if (err) throw err;
lenna
.quality(60) // set JPEG quality
.write("./forest-patrol-jimp-mini.jpg"); // save
});
```
![bug-report](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13680006/120416594-212f2c00-c37d-11eb-80d7-c5ce3bb2ad14.jpg)
Here, we can see that original image forest-patrol.jpg is smaller than the processed image forest-patrol-jimp.jpg

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