Windows 7 x64
8 core AMD FX at 4GHz
I get 650 h/s mining with the daemon with 8 cores, and 850 h/s with wolf's miner.
In the standard cryptonite algo I get 200 h/s with 6 cores and 350 h/s with claymore's miner.
So I think the situation is much better with cryptonite lite, at least in my case.

Aha! I found something. The above 650 h/s are with the 0.9.0.0 edition.
With the 0.9.1.1 the daemon hashes drooped to 270.