Protean's great - but I couldn't recommend it on the grounds of "faster loading" - it's loads files even slower that the "official" IDE. My Eridani project (which has around 35 files, and a total of about 17,000 lines) takes 1-2 minutes to load on a 3GHz machine with 1GB ram.
Mind you, once it's up an running you have a *much* nicer IDE with proper project management, and an editor with things like code completion, and function and block collapsing. I wouldn't use anything else for Blitz3D now :-)
Mind you, once it's up an running you have a *much* nicer IDE with proper project management, and an editor with things like code completion, and function and block collapsing. I wouldn't use anything else for Blitz3D now :-)