Benchmark: textContent vs innerHtml

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='test'>Change me</div>

Tests:

textContent
let testElem = document.querySelector("#test"); let i = 2_000_000; while (i--) { testElem.textContent = "HAHAHAHAHA<br>BRBRBR</br>" }
innerHtml
let testElem = document.querySelector("#test"); let i = 2_000_000; while (i--) { testElem.innerHtml = "HAHAHAHAHA<br>BRBRBR</br>" }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
textContent
innerHtml

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 101 on Linux

Test name	Executions per second
textContent	6.0 Ops/sec
innerHtml	983.8 Ops/sec

textContent vs innerHtml (version: 0)