faster ways than perl?

I am running this command on over 2 gigs worth of lines....

which one should be faster?

cut -d'|' -f21 * | sort | uniq -c | sort


perl -F"\|"  -lane 'print $F[21]' * | sort | uniq -c | sort


or is there faster ways to do this on perl?

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