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It's a lot faster if you don't rely on the default volume mounting: https://nodewood.com/blog/how-to-speed-up-docker-on-macos/

Still not as fast as on Linux, but within 10% of running it natively for me.

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SO the argument here is that it's the storage layer that slows things down? I deduce this since the linked article is about installing a new storage driver to sync to external volumes.

What about server workloads where the storage is completely inside the container / on a different server?

It's less the storage layer and more the volume mount on OSX - the default is very reliable, but at the cost of a LOT of speed. Mutagen offers varying levels of reliability, and occasionally I have to restart the sync (like maybe once a week), but it's _much_ faster.

The circumstances you're describing sound like it wouldn't be suffering this specific issue in the first place, so I'm not sure how much it'd help.

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