Docker(Hub) just isn't built for this use case. I've built https://clipper.dev to better handle ML/large images. It consists of a registry+pull client that breaks apart layers and does content addressing of individual chunks by _uncompressed_ hash, so that content can be better shared. My pull client has better parallelization and wastes much less bandwidth. It annoys the heck out of me when I change one file in a layer and have to redownload bytes my device already has. By sharing across layers I've seen 80-90% improvements in pull times for "patches".

I'm also in the process of building a BuildKit builder, I'm seeing large improvements on the speed of exporting images. The same image that takes Docker >3 minutes to export and push takes me under a minute. https://github.com/clipper-registry/benchmarks/actions/runs/...