Container Registry Pulls Are Slow Due to Layer-Level Rather Than File-Level Deduplication
Container image distribution uses layer-level deduplication, which fails to eliminate redundancy within layers, resulting in unnecessarily large pull payloads. Teams on poor network connections — particularly robotics and edge deployment workflows — experience 80-90% slower pull times than file-level deduplication would allow. This is a structural architectural limitation of current container registry implementations.
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