Intel Atom: Best GCC settings

After several experiments with 32-bit GCC 4.3.3 on Intel Atom N270 here some recommendations for optimization parameters.
-march=core2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
Another good alternative:
-mtune=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

In some BM benchmarks -march=core2 is up to 20% better than -march=prescott
So it looks like, Intel Atom is more Core2 than Pentium4. For low power devices like Atom it looks very important to use right settings since platform balances on a very fine edge in terms of usability. Given the growing popularity of this CPU it would be nice to see binary builds of software products optimized for the target (or doing internal CPUID auto-detection) to load the right binaries.

SSE2 integer optimization seems to get a nice additional boost too. Current version of BitMagic Library (3.5.3) s not compatible with GCCs syntax for variable alignment (one of the key elements for getting best memory bandwidth with SSE). Next version is going to offer better compatibility.