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IIRC not compiled (you can include the interpreter).

But then Scheme was always less EVAL-friendly of the lisps

I'm not seeing the less friendly... Eval, and sandboxing eval, are builtin features of the Scheme standard.
It has eval but it lacks reader macros (or at least it did thirty years ago) which is what makes eval useful on lisp2 systems.