Imran Shitta-Bey 68fd1e5508 fix: deadlock when sending events (#33490)
Summary:
In short, if an RCTEventDispatcher observer sends an event on the same thread that the observer was initially on, there will be a deadlock due to `sendEvent` already having the lock active on the `_observers` NSHashTable. An example where this occurred was when we had react-native-gesture-handler trigger an animated event, which then triggered an event on the underlying component being animated as a result of it being an observer on the animation event. Since this all occurred on the main thread, we ended up with a deadlock and the app froze.

To prevent this scenario, I used a `NSRecursiveLock` for _observersLock to be able to dispatch events on the same thread from observers.

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[iOS] [Fix] - Prevent deadlock when dispatching events from observers on the same thread.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/33490

Test Plan:
Not sure if there are any tests present for sending events with RCTEventDispatcher already in place, but In regular app usage this solution has proved to be a viable and stable option so far and has prevented the deadlock from occurring.

This would still be thread-safe since we are now allowing the event to be sent through observers on the same thread the initial event was dispatched on. The only issue I could see here is the behavior of sending an event could be changed.

Reviewed By: RSNara

Differential Revision: D35118752

Pulled By: charlesbdudley

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