Your suspicions are confirmed. The optimization has sped my strings-based tokenizer up by 39%. Interestingly, with the expanded test string I'm using, my original slightly edged out the optimized version of your single-regex. Here are the results:

           Rate    lists oneregex  str_org  str_opt
lists    2347/s       --     -38%     -45%     -60%
oneregex 3807/s      62%       --     -10%     -35%
str_org  4237/s      81%      11%       --     -28%
str_opt  5882/s     151%      55%      39%       --

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This optimization is definitely effective. Thanks very much.

Oh. And here's the expanded test string if you want to play with it:

my $msg = q{This, is, an, example. Keep $2.50, 1,500, and 192.168.1.1.
+ 
I want to work this thing out a LITTEL!!!!L BITH!!!!! MORE@@@@@@ with 
some,.unhapp.yword,combinations.and , a little .. bit of,, 
confusing,text hopefully @#@#@#@%#$57)#$*(#&)(*$ it will @#@][] work.}
+;

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