JavaScript console prints assigned value of variable before it has been assigned?

Question

I\'m deeply confused by the behaviour of either JavaScript, or the Chrome console. Can someone help me understand?

Basically I have the following JavaScript code, no

Answer 1

var initial_array = [];
 function initialiseArray() { 
   initial_array = [2, 9, 8, 6, 0, 2, 1];
} 
function copyToNewArray() {
    var copied_array = [];
    console.log("COPIED 1", copied_array);
    alert(copied_array.length);
    for (var i = 0; i < initial_array.length; i++) {
        var copy = initial_array[i];
        copied_array.push(copy);
    }
    console.log("COPIED 2", copied_array);
}
initialiseArray();
copyToNewArray();

Adding the line alert(copied_array.length); will show correct results.

What happens is that the log is not synchronized with the javascript execution. When the log prints the values were already changed.