After setting up a TFTP server based on tftpd-hpa I was disappointed in the transfer speeds I was seeing. A 15 MB file was enough to make the request time out before transfer completed.
The recommendation I found was to increase the maximum block size in the server configuration. However I also found a warning that some network equipment is unable to deal with fragmented packets when loading files over TFTP. The compromise I chose was to set a maximum block size below my network MTU.
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TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure -B 1468"
...Et voilà: TFTP with good enough performance for regular use.