Honestly, this is a reasonable question. I'm not really sure, and I think this is a gap in terminology (or even tooling), as I think we both sort of stumbled into the other day.

I want to say no? If I were to reframe the question as a slow function that I had to call, I wouldn't call it IO bound, so I think not - the fact that there's IO in between the two components is more of a confounding factor in profiling than an actual performance limitation.