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Ramanpreet Nara e36bfef0f1 Conditionally disable TurboModuleManager delegate locking
Summary:
## Context
Whenever the TurboModuleManager calls into its delegate, it [acquires a lock](https://www.internalfb.com/code/fbsource/[f14548634e72009989c844a2ef025915ef74159e]/xplat/js/react-native-github/ReactCommon/react/nativemodule/core/platform/ios/RCTTurboModuleManager.mm?lines=429%2C513). We initially introduced this mutex (in D21170099 (https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/2c473e1a38c35957fe80b6c334a1983c034c2bbc)). It serializes access to the TurboModuleManager delegate during TurboModule create.

## Problems
- When we call into the delegate, we acquire a lock, and call into arbitrary product code: getModuleClassFromName, getModuleInstanceFromClass. If any of these two product methods create another TurboModule, the application will deadlock, because we'll acquire the same std::mutex twice.

## Fix
The delegate methods of TurboModuleManager are usually implemented as [switch cases over the NativeModule names or NativeModule classes](https://www.internalfb.com/code/fbsource/[f015e461de4e7a18d0d52a697a53086fe6a3b91c]/fbobjc/Apps/Wilde/FBReactModule2/FBReactModuleAPI/FBReactModuleAPI/Exported/FBReactModule.mm?lines=1481-1488%2C1490-1537%2C1539-1577). So, it should be safe to call into them concurrently for two different modules.

So, while we could fix the problem by migrating the TurboModuleManager to an std::recursive_mutex, one could make an argument that this locking shouldn't even be necessary in the first place. We don't have this locking in the Android TurboModule system.

## Changes
This diff introduces a flag in React Native that allows to to safely remove this TurboModuleManager delegate locking in production.

Changelog: [Internal]

Reviewed By: sammy-SC

Differential Revision: D30754875

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